CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane is enlisted to lift a section of the launch mount for a new mobile launcher, or ML, being constructed to support NASA's future human spaceflight program. All eight segments of the mount have been delivered to Kennedy. The launcher's tower looms overhead, at right. The construction is taking place in Launch Complex 39 in the mobile launcher park site north of Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building. The new launcher is 355 feet tall and has multiple platforms for personnel access. The base of the launcher is lighter than spac
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane is enlisted to lift a section of the launch mount for a new mobile launcher, or ML, being constructed to support NASA's future human spaceflight program. All eight segments of the mount have been delivered to Kennedy. The launcher's tower looms overhead, at right. The construction is taking place in Launch Complex 39 in the mobile launcher park site north of Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building. The new launcher is 355 feet tall and has multiple platforms for personnel access. The base of the launcher is lighter than space shuttle mobile launcher platforms so the crawler-transporter can pick up the heavier load of the tower and a taller rocket.
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