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The thrust, or side load, proved greater than expected. Finally, the crawler tests revealed that the estimated coefficient of sliding friction was far below the actual resistance experienced on the crawlerway. At a crawlerway conference on 27 June 1963, NASA engineers had insisted on a minimum design coefficient of 0.6. Get price

NASA Celebrates Crawler

Feb 26, 2015With an eye towards the future, NASA commemorated the first 50 years of its two rocket-carrying crawler-transporters on Monday (Feb. 23) by taking one of the newly-upgraded massive machines out for a test drive to the launch pad. Crawler-transporter 2, referred to as CT-2, lumbered out of NASA's Get price

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

Download Image of CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2 SAEF-2) lift the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory SOHO after its removal from the crate it was shipped in from France. The SOHO spacecraft will carry a complement of 11 instruments from NASA and the European Space Get price

Nasa Crawler Transporter High Resolution Stock Photography

NASA's upgraded crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2), carrying mobile launcher platform 1, moves slowly along the crawlerway toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crawler's upgrades and modifications were monitored and tested during a loaded test to the crawlerway Pad A/B split. Get price

Modal Test of the NASA Mobile Launcher at Kennedy Space

recommendations for future large-scale modal tests. MOBILE LAUNCHER The NASA Mobile Launcher, located at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and originally built for the Constellation program in the mid-2000s, has recently been modified to support the new SLS program. This immense structure consists of Get price

NASA: NASA's Modified Crawler

This past year at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida crawler-transporter 2 has been undergoing a major overhaul to keep the workhorse going for many years to come. With the first phase of modification work complete, the crawler-transporter recently went for a successful test drive that proved all upgrades are working as designed. Get price

KSC

Mar 22, 2017NASA's upgraded crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2), carrying mobile launcher platform 1, moves slowly along the crawlerway at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crawler's upgrades and modifications will be monitored and tested under loaded conditions during its travel to the crawlerway Pad A/B split and back to the crawler yard to confirm it is ready to support the load of the Get price

NASA Celebrates Crawler

With an eye towards the future, NASA commemorated the first 50 years of its two rocket-carrying crawler-transporters on Monday (Feb. 23) by taking one of the newly-upgraded massive machines out for a test drive to the launch pad. Crawler-transporter 2, referred to as CT-2, lumbered out of NASA's Get price

Robert D. Cabana Oral History

Apr 28, 2017Wright: We know that in 2007 you were at [NASA] Stennis Space Center [Mississippi] as its Center Director, and then just a year later they asked you to move to Florida and become the Center Director at [NASA] Kennedy [Space Center, KSC]. Tell us about what your expectations were at that time, and the goals you had for your new assignment. Get price

NASA will upgrade the conveyor bearing units of its

NASA has only 2 tracked vehicles in use for the transportation of carrier rockets like "Saturn" and the "Space Shuttle" on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. These are one of the world's most existing engineering structures moving on tracks which are more than 45 years old. Despite the fact that the carriers were [] Get price

Kennedy Space Center

Template:Infobox government agency The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers, and is NASA's Center of Excellence for launch and payload processing systems. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). The management of the two entities work very closely together, share Get price

VIDEO SPECIAL: Inside NASA KSC Highlights Upcoming Launch

To celebrate its 50th year of supporting NASA missions, the upgraded and modified crawler-transporter 2, known as CT-2, rolled out of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on Feb. 18 and began the 4.2-mile trek to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA, members of the media and guests paid tribute during a viewing and Get price

A Design Study in Steel Castings Track Shoe on the NASA

The crawler transporter is a very large, heavy duty tracked vehicle used at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to move launch vehicles from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pads. Originally designed and used for the original Apollo missions, two crawler transporters (CT) are now used by NASA to carry the Space Shuttle vehicles. Get price

Crawler Transporter Model

Kit 001/499 was gifted to the NASA and will be built for the visitors complex at KSC. I had the great honor and pleasure to meet Perry Becker, Ray Trapp and my dear friend Ed Griffith, who is Mechanical Lead of Crawler Transporter #2 and source of great technical advise during the last months before the kit Get price

Advanced Lubricants

LMSO is NASA's contractor for launch operations at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The huge transporter is the Mobile Launch Platform, a six million pound crawler that moves the complete Space Shuttle from KSC's Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad at one mile per hour. Get price

NASA's Crawler

Jan 25, 2020The NASA Crawler-Transporter was built by the Marion Power Shovel Company in the 1960's as part of the Apollo Moon program. It weighs over 5 million pounds and was and is one of the most specialized and heavy duty pieces of machinery ever devised to transport a Saturn V rocket weighing 500,000 pounds and an 11 million pound rocket tower to a launch pad almost 4 miles away. Get price

Crawler Transporter 2 Upgraded in Preparation for SLS

Feb 23, 2015February 23, 2015 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — Officials from NASA's Kennedy Space Center rolled out the newly renovated Crawler Transporter 2 (CT-2) on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. The 6.5-million-pound CT-2 will carry a 10.3-million-pound mobile launcher with the 4.4-million-pound Space Launch System (SLS) booster (without liquid propellants), resulting in a massive, 21.2-million-pound Get price

KSC

Feb 20, 2015Technicians monitor the progress as NASA's crawler-transporter 2, also called CT-2, continues to slowly move along the crawlerway on a test run to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Fondly referred to as the workhorses of the space program, both crawlers, CT-1 and CT-2, have served the agency's space programs for 50 years. Get price

KSC Facilities

Oct 21, 1997The Kennedy Space Center is located on Florida's Space Coast and is 55 kilometers (34 miles) long from north to south, and 16 kilometers (10 miles) across at its widest point. It is the United States of America's only launch complex for manned operations. KSC houses some of the most unique facilities in the world. Get price

NASA

This past year at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida crawler-transporter 2 has been undergoing a major overhaul to keep the workhorse going for many years to come. With the first phase of modification work complete, the crawler-transporter recently went for a successful test drive that proved all upgrades Get price

KSC

Feb 18, 2015NASA's crawler-transporter 2, also called CT2, has exited the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a test run to Launch Pad 39B. Fondly referred to as the workhorses of the space program, both crawlers, CT1 and CT2, have served the agency's space programs for 50 years. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Get price

Moonport, CH13

By contract, Marion undertook to assemble the first complete crawler-transporter on Merritt Island by 1 November 1964 and finish road tests, mating, and modifications by 1 March 1965.6 By early December 1963, Marion had completed 90% of the design and promised that parts of the vehicle would begin to arrive at the launch area - now the Kennedy Space Center - in March 1964.7 Get price

KSC

Aug 19, 2003KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Inside the cab of crawler-transporter (CT) number 2, driver Sam Dove, with United Space Alliance, operates the vehicle on a test run to the launch pad. The CT recently underwent modifications to the cab. The CT is transporting a Mobile Launch Platform (MLP). Get price

KSC

Mar 14, 2020NASA Kennedy By: NASA Kennedy KSC-20200314-PH-AWG03_0108 During Underway Recovery Test-8, NASA's Landing and Recovery team from Exploration Ground Systems at Kennedy Space Center performed their first full mission profile test of the recovery procedures for Artemis I aboard the USS John P. Murtha in the Pacific Ocean. Get price