Kennedy Space Center

Ever wondered what the inside of NASA’s Transporter Crawler looks like?

In 2014, I was part of a NASA Social event, and as part of the “insider” tour we got to go inside and look around in the Crawler that was used for Apollo and the Space Shuttle, and is now used for Artemis.

The treads of a NASA Transporter-Crawler
A Transporter-Crawler powering a Saturn V
The huge size of the Transporter-Crawler relative to a person
Transporter-Crawler 2 has an odometer, but I could not work out the units.
A wider view of a Transporter Crawler with a person beneath it
The Transporter-Crawler has a steering wheel.
Some of the computer monitoring of the Transporter Crawler.
Part of the engine room. The diesel engines were HUGE
The driver’s seat of a Transporter-Crawler
More of the computer controls for a Transporter-Crawler
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 3, 2022 from LC-39A. The Starlink 4-9 mission lofted 47 Starlink broadband satellites to orbit.

SpaceX Falcon 9 / Starlink 4-9
Liftoff, as seen from the Bennett Causeway in Cape Canaveral. Photo made with a 500mm lens and was cropped significantly.

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SpaceX Falcon 9 / Starlink 4-9
Near the end of its boost phase, Falcon 9 pitches upwards.
Photo ©2022 Charles Boyer / Creative Commons-Attribution license
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