Over the decades, the crawler has been instrumental in NASA’s major programs, including Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle, and Artemis. Recently, huge updates have been added to the mammoth vehicle, ...

Mobile Launch Platform-3 (MLP-3), or Mobile Launcher-1 (ML-1) as it was known when NASA used it for the Apollo ... was then modified for use with the space shuttle and supported 33 more launches ...

This video covers the cranes, platforms, and crawler built to move ... Saturn V / Apollo Program 09:31 - Space Shuttle 12:58 - SLS 15:10 - Brilliant #NASA #VehicleAssemblyBuilding # ...

Jan. 27, 2024 The orbiter’s placement marks the first time a shuttle designed for space was assembled vertically outside of a NASA or Air ... 40-story crawler crane used a sling to carefully ...

NASA was and is able to do its work totally out in the open. This spirit of openness remains at the space agency today, but even so, the space shuttle's history of launching secret missions ...

NASA's $4.1 billion Space Launch ... flight to send an unpiloted Orion deep space crew ship on a voyage around the moon. A powerful Apollo-era crawler-transporter, carrying the 3.5-million-pound ...

Upon its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration, keeping astronauts space-bound with a reusable and relatively cheap ride into orbit. It was a ...

On October 31, 2002, NASA managers met at the Kennedy Space Center for a flight readiness review to discuss the shuttle Endeavour's planned launch on the next space station assembly mission.

It’s slightly smaller than the 2,354-piece Discovery set that debuted in 2021, but Lego’s new Space Shuttle Enterprise is ...

Rehoming NASA’s fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets of Los Angeles atop a mechanical transporter for three days and ...