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Crawler-Transporter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Crawler-Transporter is a tracked vehicle used to transport the Saturn V rocket, the Saturn IB rocket during Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, and now the Space Shuttle, from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building to the launchpad on a Mobile Launcher Platform. Space Shuttle Columbia carried on a Crawler-Transporter and Mobile Launcher Platform. The crawler travels along a "road" which had to be specially packed to withstand the forces put on it. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crawler-Transporter   (479 words)

Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | NASA studying potentially serious crawler problem Each of the crawlers uses 16 massive 20-inch-wide JEL cylinders to lift a shuttle and its mobile launch platform and to keep the 12-million-pound load level while climbing the 5-degree incline to the surface of the shuttle's launch pad. The Apollo-era crawlers are used to move the space shuttles to the Kennedy Space Center launch pads. The concern is that an outright bearing failure on a fully loaded crawler would be extremely difficult to repair. spaceflightnow.com /news/n0208/12crawler   (664 words)

NASA CENTERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES The overall height of the transporter is 20 feet, from ground level to the top deck, on which the mobile launcher platform is mated for transportation. The external tank is transported horizontally to the Vehicle Assembly Building on a wheeled transporter and is transferred to a vertical storage or checkout cell. The transporter's maximum speed unloaded is 2 mph; loaded, it is 1 mph. science.ksc.nasa.gov /shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/centers.html   (6210 words)

No. 25: Crawler Transporter Actually, its the crawler transporter developed for NASA to carry an assembled Saturn rocket on its five-mile journey from the assembly building to the launching pad. The NASA Crawler Transporters were named a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on Feb. 3, 1977 at the John F. Kennedy Space Center. The crawler transporter was selected in preference to both a special barge-and-canal system and a rail system. www.uh.edu /engines/epi25.htm   (443 words)

KSC Fact Sheet "KSC Transporters" In July 1962, NASA approved the crawler transporter concept, and in March 1963, a contract was awarded to Marion Power and Shovel Co., Marion, Ohio, for the construction of two transporters. Transporters of several types are used throughout the Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Launch Complex 39 Area to move orbiters, solid rocket motors, payloads and the Space Shuttles. The transporter would be the largest land vehicle ever constructed, would weigh six million pounds, and would be capable of transporting the mobile launcher with an assembled Saturn V or the mobile service structure. www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov /nasafact/transportersold.htm   (1205 words)

SPACE.com -- Wide Load: Hauling Discovery One Crawl at a Time Crawler engineers have used the two years since the Feb. 1, 2003 loss of the Columbia and its crew to upgrade NASA’s two crawlers with better electronics, ventilation and control cabs. Dating back to the Apollo-era, the shuttle’s crawler carriers and mobile launch platform were originally built to move the colossal Saturn 5 moon rockets to the launch pad. While Discovery’s rollout and rollback have given crawler operators extra practice at real-time driving, shuttle transports are often driven unloaded to keep them in working order. www.space.com /missionlaunches/050602_rtf_crawler.html   (1255 words)

eBearing news - Space Shuttle Transporters Suffer Multiple Bearing Failures So far, after ultrasound and x-ray inspections, 19 of 32 JEL bearings in Crawler Transporter #1 were found to be bad, and 15 in the second transporter. Preparing one of the transporters for a planned September 28, 2002 launch of the shuttle Atlantis, technicians discovered bearing failures in two of the JEL cylinders. These crawlers, the world's largest tracked vehicles, ferry the space shuttle and its launch platform along the KSC Crawlerway from the Vehicle Assembly Building and up a ramp to the launch pad. www.ebearing.com /news2002/081501.htm   (682 words)

Kennedy Space Center Crawler/Transporter Model The model is propelled by the four crawlers, each supporting a corner of the chassis. The arrangement of the RCX with respect to the elevator and crawler that it controls varies depending on which corner it is. One RCX controls the crawler and elevator at each corner. www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Runway/1604/ksc_ct.html   (1472 words)

APOLLO MANIACS:Crawler Transporter Along with this Crawler Transporter, using barge on canal, truck on rail were considered as the transfer method. Finally two Crawler Transporters(CT) were delivered to NASA. Crawler Transporter drawings from The Save The LUT Campaign web site. apollomaniacs.web.infoseek.co.jp /apollo/crawlere.htm   (625 words)

Saturn V -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article This transporter had to keep the rocket level as it travelled the 3 miles (5 km) to the launch site. This meant that the rocket was constructed on the launch pad in the VAB and then the whole structure was moved out to the launch site by the crawler, which is still used today by the Space Shuttle program. The S-II was constructed in (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes) California and so travelled via the (A ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914)) Panama Canal. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/saturn_v.htm   (4661 words)

Moonport, Ch21-2 Eventually astronauts would travel at speeds in excess of 40,000 kilometers per hour, but l.1 was about as fast as the crawler crew dared move the transporter with the Apollo-Saturn on its mobile launcher - an unwieldy 5,715 metric tons rising 137.5 meters above the ground. The transporter had a crew of as many as 30, most of them with walkie-talkie radios, to monitor the last stage of the trip, the 365-meter incline with a grade of about 5%. Each transporter had two cabs containing the usual controls found in an automobile: an accelerator, foot and parking brakes, speedometer, air conditioner, adjustable seat, and windshield wiper, plus radio for two-way communications. www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch21-2.html   (731 words)

Moonport, CH13-1 Each crawler- transporter was larger than a baseball infield and weighed about 2,700 metric tons. The motion of the transporter, the height of the load, variations in the level of the roadway, the wind - all would combine to throw the cargo off balance. A Bucyrus-Erie employee, Barrett Schlenk, had first interested LOC in using the crawler to carry the spaceship from the VAB to the pad. www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch13-1.html   (1049 words)

Crawler-Transporter System 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. The height of the crawler is 6 meters (20ft) to 8 meters (26 feet) adjustable. Including the Apollo years, the transporters have racked up 2,526 miles, about the same distance as a one-way trip from KSC to Los Angeles by interstate highway or a round trip between KSC and New York City. instantlearning.net /space/sehhtml/crawler.html   (355 words)

No. 1361: The Crawler Transporter It's a machine called a Crawler Transporter, originally created for NASA to carry an assembled Saturn rocket on its five-mile journey from the assembly building to the launch pad. The Crawler moves two miles an hour unloaded and one mile an hour with the rocket in place. The crawlers cost fourteen million dollars each in 1967, the year they went into service. www.uh.edu /engines/epi1361.htm   (650 words)

Kennedy Space Center Crawler/Transporter Model In this view, the crawler is upside-down, exposing the rotation sensor. The crawler's speed varies according to the power level supplied by the RCX. The crawler moves about 0.2 studs for each increment of the sensor. members.cox.net /markhaye/kd_rotsens.html   (121 words)

crawler-transporter The crawler-transporter is 40 m long and 35 m wide, weighs 2,721 tons, and contains two diesel generators that provide 5,600 hp for the electric drive motor system. It moves on four double-tracked crawlers, with hydraulic jacking pads on 27-m centers. Traveling at a mere 1.5 km/hr, it guzzles fuel at the rate of one liter every 1.6 m (one gallon every 20 feet). www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/crawler-transporter.html   (178 words)

The Digital Courier: Plant makes launch all systems go About 10 of the 32 bearings on the 37-year-old crawler transporter, one of two crawlers, were also cracked and worn. Scherpereel said although periodic maintenance had been performed on the crawler transporter's tracks and engines over the years, the leveling cylinders were simply worn out. The Torrington employees were treated to several social events on the trip, and were able to see first hand the crawler transporter and the space shuttle. www.thedigitalcourier.com /articles/2002/10/12/news/news01.txt   (996 words)

Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Space shuttle movers get new shoes NASA and United Space Alliance (USA) crawler transporter systems engineers and USA technicians are repairing the sprockets and rollers on each belt before the new shoes are installed. A tractor-trailer arrives at the Crawler Transporter area with a new shipment of crawler shoes. Crawler transporter No. 2, designated for Discovery's Return to Flight mission to the International Space Station, will receive its new shoes first. www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0410/19crawler   (796 words)

Transporter Transporter : Hauling firm that picks up properly packaged and labeled hazardous waste from generators and transports it to designated facilities for treatment, storage, or disposal. Transporters are subject to EPA and DOT hazardous waste regulations. A hazardous waste transporter registration is valid for one year and is assigned a www.mongabay.com /reference/environment/Transporter.html   (210 words)

The Rollout: The Crawler-Transporter by Jim Cornish The crawler is driven out from under the crawler and returns to the vehicle assembly area away from the dangers associated with a launch. The rear of the crawler is lifted to keep the shuttle and the mobile lauch platform level. he image above shows one of the crawlers without its heavy cargo. www.cdli.ca /CITE/sts_rollout.htm   (1062 words)

SPACE.com -- NASA Studies Crawler Transporter Problem, Atlantis' Cracks Welded The trouble is with the bearings that are part of the crawler system that keeps the entire space shuttle stack level while the transporter moves up and down a gentle incline at the launch pad. Ignoring any potential for delay because of the crawler transporter concern, space center workers are scheduled to install Atlantis' three main engines Thursday afternoon and continue to target launch for Saturday, Sept. 28. There are 16 "Jacking, Equalization and Leveling" (JEL) bearings on each transporter, two each in eight cylinders arranged on the four corners of a crawler. www.space.com /missionlaunches/sts112_update_020812.html   (700 words)

NASM--Apollo to the Moon--Vehicle Assembly Building The Crawler Transporter was 40 meters (131 feet) long, 35 meters (114 feet) wide, and 6 meters (20 feet) high. Maximum speed of the Transporter when loaded was 1.6 kilometers per hour (1 mile per hour). The shoe is 2.3 meters (7 feet 6 inches) long and weighs about 907 kilograms (2000 pounds). www.nasm.si.edu /galleries/ATTM/rm.br.s5.4.html   (141 words)

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Welcome To Image Inspection Services Ltd. This transporter is designed for use with all IMAGE portable or mainline camera systems. This transporter features rugged stainless steel construction with a powerful proven transmission and 0-110 VDC continuous duty rated motor system. Ultra-short design allows this camera transporter to enter pipelines through small inverts www.image-inspect.com /badger.html   (136 words)

Universe Today - Discovery Reaches the Launch Pad The Crawler Transporter is the vehicle which transports the Space Shuttle and its Mobile Launcher Platform to the launch pad. The slight delay was caused when Shuttle processing team members had to replace a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) circuit card on the Crawler Transporter during the final leg of its journey. The PLC is an indicator that relays height measurements to the Crawler's operators while it's in motion. www.universetoday.com /am/publish/discovery_launch_pad.html?742005   (400 words)

NASA Quest > Space Team Online Picture an eight-lane freeway spanned by one huge Crawler, supporting the Orbiter, Solid Rocket Boosters and External Engine atop the Launcher Platform, creeping slowly towards Pad. How many miles would be displayed on a Crawler odometer? He is maintains all of the Orbiter systems along with the full compliment of systems on the external tank and solid rocket boosters. quest.arc.nasa.gov /space/events/ksc99/feb   (841 words)

Advanced Materials & Processes: Steel tread belt shoe cast for NASA crawler transporter.(FORMING/PROCESSING)@ HighBeam Research It was cast by ME Global, Duluth, Minn., for NASA's crawler transporter. Steel tread belt shoe cast for NASA crawler transporter.(FORMING/PROCESSING) The track shoes were developed to replace the older shoes on the transporter, which carries the space shuttles to the launch pad. highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:134619845&refid=ink_tptd_mag   (196 words)

The Crawler Transporter - by David Chin The Crawler is about half the size of a soccer field! The top speed for the Crawler is 3.2 kph (1.6 kph with the load). This article was written by David Chin and it appeared in the February 1996 newsletter. amateurastronomy.org /HAJA/feb96.html   (50 words)

APOD: 2002 March 4 - The Shuttle Crawler Transporter APOD: 2002 March 4 - The Shuttle Crawler Transporter this picture a crawler transports the shuttle Columbia to the pad prior to its March 1st launch The crawler's function is to move NASA's space shuttles -- complete with antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap020304.html   (137 words)

John F. Kennedy Space Center - STS-59 Shuttle Mission The shuttle Endeavour completed it's six hour 3.5 mile journey to Pad 39A atop the crawler transporter at 1 p.m. A launch attempt on April 7 was delayed at least one day so that inspections could be done to insure Endeavour does has vanes of the proper radius in its liquid oxygen engine preburner. This placed Endeavour in an orbit of 121nm by 120nm. www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov /kscpao/shuttle/missions/sts-59/mission-sts-59.html   (6011 words)

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