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An artist's rendering of crawler-transporter 2.
Credit: NASA/David Zeiters
CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA’s plan to build a second mobile launcher for its upgraded Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will cost the agency $1.8 billion—three times more than originally planned—and possibly as much as $2.7 billion, NASA’s inspector general (IG) wrote in an audit released Aug. 27. Mobile...
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