Costs For NASA SLS Mobile Launcher-2 Triple, IG Finds

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...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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