all4tribal1414779019 Posted July 31 Report Share Posted July 31 The Shuttle Crawler Transporter Explanation: NASA's Crawler-Transporters are the largest tracked vehicles in existence. Although the crawlers pack over 5,000 horsepower, their top speed is less than two kilometers per hour when fully loaded. Eleven people are needed to drive a single crawler. Diesel fuel mileage is about 350 liters per kilometer (less than 0.007 miles per gallon). The crawler's function is to move NASA's space shuttles -- complete with launch platforms -- from the Assembly Building to the Launch Pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. Two of these massive machines have operated since the Apollo era and have now crawled over 4,000 kilometers, all the while keeping their contents perfectly upright. In this picture a crawler transports the shuttle Columbia to the pad prior to its March 1st launch on the latest Hubble Space Telelescope Servicing Mission.Weight: 2,721 metric tons (6 million pounds)Length: 40 meters (131 ft) wide, 35 meters (114ft) longtakes about 5 hours to get from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the Launch Pad.Click here for article and higher picture resolutionhttp://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020304.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slide On The Ice Posted July 31 Report Share Posted July 31 That is amazing. Monterous is what it is. Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted July 31 Report Share Posted July 31 kinda of a real life version of the sandcrawlers the jawwas used.... kinda........... lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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