KSC Crawlerway: Originally designed to support the weight of a Saturn V and payload – plus its Launch Umbilical Tower (LUT) and Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) ...

Once the mobile launch pad is in place, the CT crawls back down the Crawlerway before launch. The two crawlers were originally constructed in 1965 by Marion Shovel Company in Ohio and were first ...

The crawlerway has four layers, including a 3 1/2-foot sub-base, a 3-foot crushed aggregate base, a blacktop sealer and then a top layer of the rocks, about 8 inches thick on curves and 4 inches ...

NASA announced that the rocket and crawler left the launch pad at 4:12 a.m. ET this morning, Saturday, July 2, and that it was scheduled to arrive at the building later this morning. You can watch ...

The Vehicle Assembly Building has been used since the 1960s to build the rockets before they lift off from the launch pad. It has been primarily used by 3 rockets: the Saturn V, the Space Shuttle ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) presented the Florida Project of the Year award on Tuesday to the crawlerway system evaluation team at NASA’s Kenne… ...

NASA's Kennedy Space Center crawlerway may have to be rebuilt because the combined weight of the agency's Ares V cargo launch vehicle, its mobile launcher and crawler-transporter for the ...

10.1K. Crawler Transporter -2 (CT-2) is tracking an August road trip down the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Crawlerway carrying the modified Mobile Launcher (ML) to Pad 39B.

NASA's massive Crawler-Transporter II relies on two 16-cylinder Alco diesel engines to run two 1000 kW DC generators that in turn power 16 motors to move four sets of tracks that weigh a total of ...

The space shuttle Endeavour moves along the crawlerway from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in this March 11, 2011, file photo. Minnesota ...