To: XBob
...Marion Power Shovel, which built them, is now out of business Oh my. That transporter crawler is the most awesome piece of machinery that mankind has ever designed. I'm sorry to hear that they're out of business... If I remember right we have 3 crawlers???
52 posted on
12/09/2003 4:05:13 AM PST by
Gracey
(Can't wait for the next opportuity to FReep with the fine FResno FReepers)
To: Gracey
52 - "That transporter crawler is the most awesome piece of machinery that mankind has ever designed. I'm sorry to hear that they're out of business... If I remember right we have 3 crawlers???"
They certainly are awesome - and there are only two of them. Just imagine, a rolling behemoth 550 feet tall, climbing the hill of the pad. Neither one is in very good shape now, as the spare parts to keep them running just no longer exist, so basically only one runs at a time. Every launch, it is a struggle to get one working to get the bird to the pad. Several times a few years back, they broke part way out (not covered much by the news media though).
55 posted on
12/09/2003 4:53:47 AM PST by
XBob
To: Gracey; XBob
Oh my. That transporter crawler is the most awesome piece of machinery that mankind has ever designed. I'm sorry to hear that they're out of business... If I remember right we have 3 crawlers???When I was at KSC, I was fortunate enough to be able to walk beside a crawler as the Atlantis was being transported to the pad
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