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