Ray Bradbury wrote three elegies after visiting the deactivated launch pads on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The first begins:
“Abandon in Place.
No Further Maintenance Authorized.
Abandon. Turn away your face.
No more the mad high wanderings of thought
You once surmised. Let be!
Wipe out the stars. Put out the skies.”Stenciled on many of the station’s deactivated facilities, the phrase “Abandon in Place” indicates the structures are no longer being maintained.
What should be a well-maintained open-air museum visited by busloads of schoolchildren from all over the GOUSA…is allowed to crumble into dust.
Eideard 
Nice
● (3/7/20): NASA spent a decade and nearly $1 billion for a single launch tower
“NASA exacerbated these issues by accepting unproven and untested designs.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/nasa-spent-a-decade-and-nearly-1-billion-for-a-single-launch-tower/
The Mobile Launcher-1 supports the 355-foot-tall SLS [Space Launch System] rocket, provides access to the Orion spacecraft, and provides power, communications, coolant, and fuel to the rocket.
Figure ML-1 Structure, Umbilical and Accessories (click to enlarge)
● “NASA’s Absurdly Expensive SLS Megarocket Is Broken Again” https://futurism.com/nasas-sls-broken-again
● “NASA has begun a study of the SLS rocket’s affordability” [Updated 3/15/21] https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/nasa-has-begun-a-study-of-the-sls-rockets-affordability/ “…the SLS rocket is expected to cost more than $2 billion per flight, and that is on top of the $20 billion NASA has already spent developing the vehicle and its ground systems. Some of the incoming officials do not believe the Artemis Moon Program is sustainable with such launch costs.”
● (12/20/21): “NASA’s SLS Rocket Just Got $3.2 Billion More Expensive” https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/20/nasas-sls-rocket-got-32-billion-more-expensive/
The U.S. 2022 defense budget allots $768.2 billion for national defense programs – about a 2% increase ($25 billion) from the Biden administration’s original request.
$740 billion is budgeted for the Department of Defense and roughly $27.8 billion for the Department of Energy’s nuclear defense activities.
In their fiscal year 2022 spending legislation, congressional appropriators followed the Biden administration’s request for NASA, proposing to increase the agency’s annual budget from $23.3 billion to about $25 billion.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
From “The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot. (1925) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men
Los Angeles Vintage Room Abandon Place for TV and Film Production 13 (see photo) https://www.peerspace.com/pages/listings/5ba2e0957ba2cb0f0066ad9c
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“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.
We march backwards into the future”
Marshall McLuhan, ‘The Medium Is the Massage” (1967)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage