Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 3:34 am
Google search with the term crawler+space+shuttle+transport got soem of the bellow. the hard part was finding it was called a crawler, then it was easy.
it travels at the rate of only one m.p.h. on the trip to the launch pad aboard a 6 million-pound tracked vehicle called the Crawler Transporter.
It's 131 feet long and 114 feet wide
good photo and mre info here
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020304.html
more images here
http://www.cloudster.com/RealHardware/C ... rawler.htm
and lets go everboard with this
http://www.users.bigpond.com/peter.aylward/ct.htm
it travels at the rate of only one m.p.h. on the trip to the launch pad aboard a 6 million-pound tracked vehicle called the Crawler Transporter.
It's 131 feet long and 114 feet wide
good photo and mre info here
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020304.html
more images here
http://www.cloudster.com/RealHardware/C ... rawler.htm
and lets go everboard with this
http://www.users.bigpond.com/peter.aylward/ct.htm