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#Crawlerway close to #launchpad. #Repost @globallearningnews ・・・ Launch Pad 39B and #CrawlerWay. #kennedyspacecenter #exploringflorida #nasa #crawlertransporter #globallearning2017 @kennedyspacecenter @nasa (at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex)

We followed #crawlerway from #VAB #vehicleassemblybuilding to #launchpad. #Repost @globallearningnews ・・・ #CrawlerWay. The crawler-transporters, formally known as the Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities,[2] are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport spacecraft from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) along the Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39. #wikipedia #spaceexploration #exploringflorida #kennedyspacecenter #nasa #globallearning2017 #crawlertransporter (at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex)

Launch Pad 39B and #CrawlerWay. #kennedyspacecenter #exploringflorida #nasa #crawlertransporter #globallearning2017 @kennedyspacecenter @nasa (at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39)

#CrawlerWay. The crawler-transporters, formally known as the Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities,[2] are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport spacecraft from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) along the Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39. #wikipedia #spaceexploration #exploringflorida #kennedyspacecenter #nasa #globallearning2017 #crawlertransporter (at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39)

The Crawlerway is a 130-foot (40 m) wide double pathway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It runs between the Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Complex 39. It has a length of 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to Pad 39A and 4.2 miles (6.8 km) to Pad 39B. A seven-foot (2 m) bed of stones lies beneath a layer of asphalt and a surface made of Tennessee river rocks. The Crawlerway was designed to support the weight of a Saturn V rocket and payload, plus its Launch Umbilical Tower and Mobile Launch Platform, atop a Crawler-transporter during the Apollo Program. It was used from 1981–2011 to transport the lighter Space Shuttles to their launch pads. Construction of the Crawlerway connected Merritt Island with the mainland, forming a peninsula. The main vehicle access road to and from the launch pads, the Saturn Causeway, runs alongside the crawlerway.