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NASA’s two crawler transporter vehicles soon will sport new “shoes.” A $10 million project to replace the 456 tread belt shoes, weighing more than one ton each, on both crawlers at Kennedy Space ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With TropicalStorm Ernesto headed their way, NASA officials decided Tuesday to haul the space shuttle Atlantisoff its launch pad, effectively delaying the space agency's plan to ...

NASA intends to upgrade one of its Apollo-era treaded crawlers and an inactive mobile platform built for the canceled Ares launcher program to support the agency's colossal super-rocket, officially ...

Some of the largest vehicles on earth are diesels. Earth-moving equipment, ocean liners, freight trains-all are diesel-powered. It should come as no surprise then that the largest self-propelled land ...

With the upcoming launch of Discovery, the crawler transporter is once again poised to play its supporting role — taking a space shuttle on the four-mile journey from Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — The Sabino Canyon Crawler shuttle is now back in operation. The shuttle service made the announcement on Thursday, Nov. 5, after having first closed on March 25 due to the pandemic.

What gas guzzler travels 0.8 mph, gets 32 feet to the gallon and carries the pride of America on its back? Meet the crew of "the crawler" — an... Who Will Shuttle The Last Shuttle? The Crawler Crew ...

What gas guzzler travels 0.8 mph, gets 32 feet to the gallon and carries the pride of America on its back? Meet the crew of "the crawler" — an... Before space shuttle Atlantis can carry astronauts up ...

Before space shuttle Atlantis can carry astronauts up on the very last shuttle mission ever, workers on the ground first have to carry Atlantis to the launch pad. The last shuttle launch is planned ...