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Re:Historic NASA Launch Platform Will Be Demolished by pdonis on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:48PM (#25931304)
The article says the old MLPs were phased out because they couldn't support the weight of the Space Launch System, but from the figures I can find, SLS isn't as heavy as the Saturn V was. (And also doesn't boost as much payload to either LEO or TLI as Saturn V did. Sigh.)
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Re:Historic NASA Launch Platform Will Be Demolished by stretchcat on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:36PM (#25931992)
They've aged since then. Maybe they can't support as much weight today as they once could.
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