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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Re:This is the way to spend taxpayer money!

[pete-classic]

Huh. I guess my point was lost on the moderator. It was that whether or not they have put a man on the moon is not a very useful general metric for the success of government organizations.

Does it not seem silly to anyone else to point out that the only organization whose purpose is to achieve some goal was the only organization to achieve that goal?

Was that really not obvious? Is that really trolling?

-Peter