Mobile Launch Platform, NASA, Kennedy Space Center
The new $145-million Mobile Launch Platform at Kennedy Space Center will serve the next generation of manned space flight under the Constellation space exploration program. It will be used for assembly, testing and servicing areas at existing space center facilities; to transport the Ares I rocket to launch pad; and to provide ground support for launches.
The tower of the mobile launcher is 405 ft tall and weighs 6.8 million lbs.