You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: LeoThread 2023-08-08 19:42View the full contextdarth-azrael (71)in LeoFinance • last year A photo of one of the two crawler-transporters taken in 2000 at the Kennedy Space Center. #NASA #crawlertransporter #KSC
You can also see the Vehicle Assembly Building in the background.
The crawler-transporters were originally put into service in 1965 to carry the Saturn IB and Saturn V from the VAB to the launch pad, a trip of 3.4 to 4.2 miles depending on which pad.
Later, from 1981 to 2011 they were used to transport the Space Shuttle.
They each way 6 million pounds and until 2013 they were the largest self-powered land vehicles in the world.
They move at a max speed of 1 MPH so the trip to the launch pad takes 5-6 hours.
Moving forward, they will continue to be used for the Space Launch System.