I think things like Space X have made much of the function of NASA obsolete.
Private enterprise does pretty much everything better than the Government does. It’s best to leave the government to things that only have a government solution. Space exploration used to, but not any more. Time for them to bow out of the “small stuff”.
Couldn’t they just shim up one or two of the legs? There are probably some surplus copies of What Happened that they could shove under there...
At the rate they’re proceeding, the MLP may NEVER see a launch. Pretty sad. I worked the shuttle for 36 years and now we’re payin’ the rooskies. Sad dang day.
While NASA seems to believe this lean is not enough to require additional construction, it will likely mean that the Mobile Launcher won’t be used for more than one or two launches.
$912 million dollars. Apparently use of the mysterious Ancient Egyptian technology called a “plumb-bob” has been lost.
I am sure that there will be a $1.5 billion program to straighten it up, just as soon as the appropriation can be spread out across the required number of congressional districts.
Thanks to the muslim outreach program at NASA, it probably points to Mecca.
N ever A S traight A nswer. What do you expect?
The NASA launcher has Peyronies disease.
10 million pounds. Built on a swamp. What could go wrong?
The Leaning Tower of Billion.
Good gawd!! The government is the biggest parasite on the American people!
SpaceX could have built that in half the time for a quarter of the money
They need to call RamJack.
Enough material there to build a horizontal rail and ramp launcher.
Is “gantry” too big a vocabulary word for Avery?
I think the problem is every bid to build the thing goes to the lowest bidder. :-(
This is such a dismissive, nothing to see here, article. Wouldn’t you think somebody should be held accountable for a very expensive mistake??
The Apollo program built a mobile launch platform that could carry a fully assembled Apollo stack from the vehicle assembly building out to the launch pad, including up an incline so that at the end, the launcher and rocket climbed eight stories up to the actial launch pad. It could do this without the tip of the rocket moving outside a circle the diameter of a tennis ball. Then it wss reused for the space shuttle. Made in the 1960s. With slide rules.
What do they need that fancy contraption for anyway? Can’t they just strap a big stick to the side of the SLS and then stick it in a bottle?
You think they could jack the thing in the right direction.