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) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @12:45PM
He's not my fossil. I didn't like him then and I don't like his legacy now.
Also, pause for a moment and consider why you thought a religious quote was pertinent to the death of competency and knowledge. Or why it would carry any weight here, of all places.
Behold the death of competence and knowledge, I call it...
"Late-Stage Equality":
https://gap.hks.harvard.edu/paradox-meritocracy-organizations [harvard.edu]
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_mantra_of_meritocracy [ssir.org]
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/12/meritocracy/418074/ [theatlantic.com]
TLDR: Various reasons why these people believe meritocracy is a sexist/racist sham.
When you replace merit-based policies with diversity nonsense, it's not just the death of, but the deliberate murder of competence and knowledge.