Stacking of New Space Vehicle Begins At KSC

Matt_dk writes "For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a new space vehicle will begin stacking on a mobile launch platform (MLP) at Kennedy Space Center. The Ares I-X aft skirt, which was mated to a solid fuel segment in the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility at KSC, rolled over to the 528-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building today, where it will be lifted and placed on the MLP in High Bay 3. On that platform, workers will secure the aft booster and continue adding segments of the first stage rocket, the upper stage simulators, the crew module mockup and the launch abort system simulator, taking the vehicle to a height of 327 feet."

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Spaceship modules

[sopssa]

Dudes, the game ends at 2020. There's around 10 years to go, and the trip to alpha centauri takes way more turns. All the modules should had been installed by now and the space vehicle should be on its way already! I mean, I did take my extra time to build the better modules and prioritized production in all cities to do it, but I would had never left it this late in game to actually launch it.

Aah, Civ2 times.. All the lost weekends, while still learning so much from it.

Re:Spaceship modules

[Red Flayer]

Ah, how far the mighty have fallen.

Where once that post sailed above the masses in the +3 thermocline, now it languishes at the bottom of score:0 canyon.
It is no longer its privilege to soar and swoop among the updrafts and downdrafts over the score:2 threshold, now it must crawl, penitently, through the scrubgrass.

Oh worthy moderators, how had he offended thee?
Was it his wanton brashness in posts of yore?
Was it his disagreement with your politics?

Oh, my keyboard for the knowledge of why, why, why
his off-topic post gleans deserved moderation, while its off-topic parents receive continued adulation.

Consistency, please.

Re:Spaceship modules

[rhyder128k]

It's annoying when a joke thread begins to dominate. Particularly when the subject is a most interesting article about Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Actually a plausible scenario

[StCredZero]

They do have that "Chicken Gun." I can imagine a test where they see what happens if you fire a chicken at 600 MPH into the 1st stage exhaust plume. Not that they'd ever have a good reason to do it, just that they could -- to have KSC Friend Chicken.

Maybe this is a one for the Mythbusters? How do we incorporate C4?

Re:Actually a plausible scenario

[wooferhound]

You would want to have the KSC fried chicken for your Launch break . . .

That's a low ceiling..

[theelectron]

327 feet? I was hoping it could fly higher than that...

Re:This is the way to spend taxpayer money!

[Siberwulf]

In Soviet Russia... Mir forgets YOU!

Re:AERQWEDF

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Did you mean Florida Fried Bat?

Re:wrong macro engineering again

[geekoid]

So your argument boils* down to "It's better because it's what I'm used to"? Nice.

*Yes I did.