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Historic NASA Launch Platform Will Be Demolished


Historic NASA Launch Platform Will Be Demolished
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NASA’s Mobile Launcher Platform-2 a structure involved in the Apollo and Space Shuttle missions is in the process of being torn down. Incredibly, the space agency is ridding itself of the massive platform to make room for parking spaces, as collectSpace reports.
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In a matter of weeks, Mobile Launcher-2, or MLP-2, will be no more.
Built more than 50 years ago, the historic NASA launcher was involved in such notable missions as Apollo 12 and 14 (both crewed missions to the Moon), Skylab (a precursor to the International Space Station), and every inaugural Space Shuttle launch save for Columbia. More dubiously, MLP-2 was the platform from which the Challenger shuttle made its final, tragic flight in 1986. In total, MLP-2 was involved in over 50 launches from 1968 through 2011. So yeah, a lot of history tacked onto this hulking 160-foot-long, 135-foot-wide, 25-foot-tall structure (if you w ....

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