NASA Completes $350 Million Rocket Testing Tower Nobody Wants
"Nothing left to cut"
NASA is supposed to build machines that launch into space, not structures that stay grounded on Earth and send spending into the stratosphere.
But that is exactly what is happening this year as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration completes the $350 million rocket-engine testing A-3 tower at its research facility in Mississippi. There is just one problem: The space exploration agency doesn't want it.
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