Because this cannot be accommodated by the Mobile Launcher-1, a new launch tower is needed. (That's right—NASA is going to spend $1 billion for some launch infrastructure, Mobile Launcher-1 ...

The space agency's mobile launch tower is leaning slightly to the north. ... NASA will have spent $912 million on the mobile launcher it may use for just a single launch of the SLS rocket.

17.6K. The huge Mobile Launcher (ML) that will be used to launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is leaning. However, NASA insists it is structurally sound and does not require modifications to ...

Work for now continues daily at Kennedy Space Center on a new mobile launch tower that has already cost more than $1 billion. But the Artemis moon mission it is intended to serve may never happen ...

NASA is set to launch the SLS rocket in 2020. There's just one big problem: its $1 billion mobile launcher is leaning. Here's what you need to know.

After completing a 9-mile round trip to Launch Pad 39B and back, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) mobile launcher entered the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on ...

NASA's problems with the mobile launch tower that will support a larger version of its Space Launch System rocket are getting worse rather than better. According to a new report from NASA's inspector ...

A second giant launch tower would rise at Kennedy Space Center under a budget deal that Congress is expected to approve before this weekend, finalizing funding for the remainder of 2018.

The gateway to Mars is now in place, and WESH 2 News got a firsthand look at NASA's new mobile launch tower.When astronauts travel to an asteroid, the moon and finally to Mars, they will ascend ...

The SLS and its mobile launch platform emerge from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center March 17. ... including some that hit lightning protection towers surrounding the pad.

The SLS Mobile Launch, a hold-over from Constellation, on a modified Apollo-era crawlerway transporter arrives at LC-39B for testing. (Credit: Stephen Marr for NSF/L2) ...

Work for now continues daily at Kennedy Space Center on a new mobile launch tower that has already cost more than $1 billion. But the Artemis moon mission it is intended to serve may never happen ...