Unemployed Ares I Mobile Launcher set for Crawler trip

[savuporo]

The best thing I can think of what to do with it is either sell it to ULA or Spacex or see if it could be re-purposed for the HLV.

Can it be turned into a memorial of a certain recent NASA administrator instead ?

[Mark Dave]

Well why not put it in the Visitor Garden with the old rockets? If it's use for Ares 1 is no more then make the LUT part of the out door exhibit. This comes from when I was at Space Camp in Huntsville a decade ago and saw a life size replica of a Saturn V standing there. ( OT, but  now thinking on it the old Saturn V LUT could  have been put with the replica Saturn V)

I hope video will be shown soon of the Ares 1 ML being moved. I also hope it will be used for launching space vehicles instead of scrapping it.

[Chris Bergin]

I really hope they don't scrap it. But it's probably what will eventually happen.

Last update I saw was they had made the trip and were reversing into the parksite, so likely done. Will have an article on when that's confirmed.

[edkyle99]

The best thing I can think of what to do with it is either sell it to ULA or Spacex or see if it could be re-purposed for the HLV.

Can it be turned into a memorial of a certain recent NASA administrator instead ?

Or park it in front of a certain politician's house in Hyde Park, Illinois.

 - Ed Kyle

[TrueBlueWitt]

I really hope they don't scrap it. But it's probably what will eventually happen.

Last update I saw was they had made the trip and were reversing into the parksite, so likely done. Will have an article on when that's confirmed.

I thought I read that as part of this process they were supposed to "weigh" it. 

Does anyone know where it came in versus the original projection?

[robertross]

I really hope they don't scrap it. But it's probably what will eventually happen.

Last update I saw was they had made the trip and were reversing into the parksite, so likely done. Will have an article on when that's confirmed.

I thought I read that as part of this process they were supposed to "weigh" it. 

Does anyone know where it came in versus the original projection?

They weighed it yesterday apparently. No idea on mass, but figure whatever the crawler can handle, that was the maximum (actual) mass (plus/minus a few kilos)

[renclod]

http://twitpic.com/2tnyrc/full

New Mobile Launcher Catches Ride atop Crawler-Transporter
from @NASAKennedy

[Chris Bergin]

I really hope they don't scrap it. But it's probably what will eventually happen.

Last update I saw was they had made the trip and were reversing into the parksite, so likely done. Will have an article on when that's confirmed.

I thought I read that as part of this process they were supposed to "weigh" it. 

Does anyone know where it came in versus the original projection?

Yep indeed! They've weighed it twice, but we've not seen any figures. They expect it to come in much heavier than expected (or more so previously targetted), due to modifications during its frabrication.

[DaveS]

The first KSC PAO photos of the today's ML move is beginning to appear: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=4

[renclod]

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[Chris Bergin]

Article:

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2010/10/ares-i-ml-takes-ride-crawler-transporter-relocation/

[Ronsmytheiii]