How Do You Move a Space Shuttle? This Thing.
Since the Space Shuttle couldn’t very well fly itself to the launch pad, NASA had to figure out how to get $1.7 billion worth of spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building the the Launch Pad. Their solution: the 2700-ton Crawler-Transporter. Problem solved. Standing 20-26 feet high, 131 feet wide, and 114 feet long, each vehicle—nicknamed…
