The crawler-transporters, formally known as the Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities, [2] are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport launch vehicles from NASA 's Vehicle Assembly …

Mar 31, 2025 · A pair of behemoth machines called crawler-transporters have carried the load of taking rockets and spacecraft to the launch pad for more than 50 years at NASA’s Kennedy …

May 20, 2025 · The two Crawler-Transporters are the world’s largest self-propelled land vehicles. They were designed and built by Marion Power Shovel Company, Marion, Ohio, and were …

The crawler transporter was selected in preference to both a special barge-and-canal system and a rail system. What finally emerged was something out of science fiction.

May 1, 1979 – A crawler transported space shuttle Enterprise, with external tank and two inert solid rocket boosters, to Launch Pad A for fit check. Early 1980 – The original shoe quantity …

The two tracked Crawler-Transporters previously used to move the assembled Apollo/Saturn from the VAB to the launch pad are now used for transporting Shuttle vehicles.

Once at the pad, the crawler lowers the mobile launcher onto the pad pedestals. The transporter then moves to a park site away from the pad to avoid pos-sible damage from launch.

Apr 11, 2023 · What is the NASA Crawler-Transporter? It is a rail-mounted self-propelled vehicle that transports spacecraft very safely to the launch pad. Originally developed in the 1960s, it …

Once at the pad, the crawler lowers the mobile launch-er onto the pad pedestals. The transporter then moves to a park site away from the pad to avoid possible damage from launch.

The crawler-transporters, formally known as the Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities,[2] are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport spacecraft from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building …