NASA IG: SLS Mobile Launchers Face Cost, Schedule Issues

Mobile Launcher
Credit: NASA
As NASA struggles with cost and schedule challenges in the development of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion crew capsule, it is facing similar difficulties with another key piece of hardware, the Mobile Launcher (ML). The agency will need two, ML-1 and a more capable ML-2. The MLs are the...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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