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DannyB writes:

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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Original Submission

1. "DannyB" - https://soylentnews.org/~DannyB/
2. "NASA spent a decade and nearly $1 billion for a single launch tower" - https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/nasa-spent-a-decade-and-nearly-1-billion-for-a-single-launch-tower/
3. "new report" - https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-20-013.pdf
4. "sunk cost" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
5. "NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/03/19/2043254
6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=39873

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