Click to open image viewer. This is a single tread of the enormous Crawler-Transporter used to transport the Saturn V rocket to its launch site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the Apollo ...
NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2), is one of two vehicles originally designed to haul the Saturn V rockets from Apollo era to Kennedy Space Center’s launch pads. It continued its piggyback service ...
As spacecraft travel, this was surely the slowest trip on record—nine hours to cover all of 3½ miles. But as it moved from NASA’s Vertical Assembly Building to launch pad 39-A at Cape Kennedy last ...