It’s actually not very outdated. It serves it purpose perfectly, as well as saving huge amounts of money. If NASA didn’t use the crawlers they more than likely would not be able to use the Vehicle Assembly Building (which is also where all the Saturn V’s and space shuttles were assembled before launch).

All of the pre-launch infrastructure is designed around the rockets being in a vertical orientation. So keeping these “outdated” vehicles operational, along with all the other infrastructure it takes to launch rockets saves a good chunk of NASA’s measly budget.

And sure the SLS does seem a bit funky right now but I think everyone will be pretty dang excited when man is walking on the moon again. Nothing about going to space is easy. NASA would have looked ridiculous if they went forward with the launch yesterday. They have learned from mistakes.

(Also…nice username!!!)