Monday, April 11, 2011

Crawler-Transporter


The Crawler-Transporters are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport spacecraft from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) along the Crawlerway to Launch Pad 39A & B. They were originally used to transport Saturn 1B and Saturn rockets during Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz programs. They are presently being used to transport the Space Shuttle. They are the largest self powered land vehicles in the world. When it comes to Space one has to think big!!!

2 comments:

  1. This is a really big vehicle...could move a whole household in one trip??? Hahaha...

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  2. It travels at 1 mph sis, so you might not be happy with the progress made. I am sure it could move a hotel or two.... :-)

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