How NASA Drives The $144 Million Vehicle That Transports Rocket Ships | What It Takes

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Before a rocket can blast off into space, it must travel 4.2 miles from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. That’s where NASA’s crawler-transporters come in. They’re the largest self-powered vehicles on the planet, and they’re designed to transport rockets to the launchpad. We got an inside look at how NASA’s preparing and operating the crawler for the 16-million-pound mobile launcher and Space Launch System, NASA’s largest and heaviest rocket to date.

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How NASA Drives The $144 Million Vehicle That Transports Rocket Ships | What It Takes

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36 thoughts on “How NASA Drives The $144 Million Vehicle That Transports Rocket Ships | What It Takes”

  1. and during the Soviet Union times and now Russia, they are using at Baikonur, a simple railway line to get the rockets to the launchpad. no need for a multi billion $$$ toy. but makes for good PR and justifications how the taxpayers money is being sent.

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  3. 144 million? Honestly that sounds like a great deal when you think of the money the military spends on different planes
    Literally billions for a single special plane

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  6. Welp…I can see why privatizing this would be good, ya’ll are skilled but from a biz standpoint a complete waste of money😂😂

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  17. If you really are interested in the many problems with the next Mobile Launch
    platform Arstechnica has an excellent article called, "NASA’s second
    mobile launcher is too heavy, years late, and pushing $1 billion". The next one is for the Block 2 SLS and is supposed to correct the deficiencies of this one. Bechtel is performing very poorly.

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