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posted by martyb on Saturday March 21 2020, @07:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the But-it's-only-$2-milllion-per-week! dept.

NASA spent a decade and nearly $1 billion for a single launch tower:

"NASA exacerbated these issues by accepting unproven and untested designs."

A new report published Tuesday by NASA's inspector general looks into the development of a mobile launch tower for the agency's Space Launch System rocket.

The analysis finds that the total cost of constructing and modifying the structure, known as Mobile Launcher-1, is "at least" $927 million. This includes the original $234 million development cost to build the tower to support the Ares I rocket.

After this rocket was canceled in 2010, NASA then spent an additional $693 million to redesign and modify the structure for the SLS rocket. Notably, NASA's original estimate for modifying the launch tower was just $54 million, according to the report by Inspector General Paul Martin.

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Does NASA understand what a sunk cost is?
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  • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @07:48AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @07:48AM (#973761)

    Meanwhile, the US military lost, literally, 3.4 Trillion in failed adventures in the Middle East, including pallets of cash for "allies". And anyone here dares to bitch about NASA spending? I hope you die in a corona.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday March 21 2020, @11:29AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday March 21 2020, @11:29AM (#973781) Journal

    SLS is a Boeing and Lockheed Martin cash cow that will accomplish nothing of consequence in Earthican history. You might as well bomb some countries, the same companies will be getting that cash.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 21 2020, @11:29PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 21 2020, @11:29PM (#973966) Journal

    And anyone here dares to bitch about NASA spending

    There are plenty of reasons people could dare: foolishness, impotence of the target, etc. Here, it's just the right thing to do. It's the same evil that leads to those adventures you speak of, vast sums of our wealth and future spent to little purpose.