Rollout!
Space Shuttle Endeavour,NASA
Space shuttle Endeavour was moved Jan. 6 from the Vehicle Assembly Building to
Launch Pad 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida for its STS-130 mission
to the International Space Station. The move is referred to as a “rollout.”
Endeavour is targeted to launch Feb. 7. During its 13-day mission, the shuttles
six astronauts will deliver a third connecting module, the Tranquility node,
to the space station.
#Rollout
Nice!!!
I’m going to follow this mission from departure to landing 😀
@Dragonlor140 Sorry I disliked your comment I hit the wrong side I meant to like your comment
@stefanmckinley Sorry I hit the wrong side I meant to like your comment. It was a complete accident. I too love watching the Space Shuttle.
@saaweeet
It indeed is massive, but you should know that for better mining abilities, even larger machinery has been built, about twice as massive as this vehicle.
I was there when the shuttle mover celebrated its 2000th mile (could be km, was a long time ago). NASA had a little celebration apparently. I saw it from the tour bus. It is a beautiful machine.
I’ll never forget visiting the Kennedy Space centre. For anyone who’s never been there, i highly recommend you visit at least once. It’s an amazing reminder of what humans can achieve through the persuance of scientific discovery.
It is interesting but i have not been there since 1972 before the shuttles started and now they soon end I really do not understand that there will be so many years before the next space craft
Awesome!
I was born in 1956 in high school in 1972 learning to be useful for my communtiy
oh wow. Pail Orange Booster Tank. That’s a first for me to see
Why are they spraying water underneath the shuttle?
@moviemaker933 — they spray water onto the surface to control the dust
@boundtogetdown We’d have a colony on the moon and would be terraforming Mars.
I know the crawler moves at about 1 mph, but it looked pretty fast from that side view towards the end of the video. Imagine tripping and falling in front of one of the treads 😛
And that’s quite an incline to the launch site shown at the very end. Does the entire shuttle lean with the crawler on the incline or does it allow for the shuttle to auto level itself while it’s climbing? Imagine the distance from its correct orientation that the Saturn V would have experienced up that incline. I’m surprised it would have tipped over.
K thanks!
No problem at all 🙂
Actually,I think the water is to prevent friction between the crushed stone and the weight of the crawler.Those twin solid rocket boosters,and 3 main engines have the power of a small atomic bomb,untill recently they imported all the gravel from alabana after each roll out
@mrsjr78 i’d rather not
holy crap. thats huge. *thats what she said*
Magnificent !
It’s so awesome that humans have been able to build something like this. Go NASA.
It isn’t ending, it’s just changing.
makes sure you don’t screw it
The thing that is doing all the moving is one of the two Crawler Transporters. The large box item that the shuttle sits on is called a Mobile Launch Platform or MLP for short.
Nice