The Crawler-Transporter is a tracked vehicle used to transport the Saturn V rocket, the Saturn IB rocket during Skylab and Soyuz, and now the Space . It was designed by Bucyrus International and built by the Marion Power Shovel Co. at a cost of US$ 14 million each. When they were built, they were the largest in the world. The German Bagger 288 excavator is now the largest tracked vehicle in the world.
Features
Height: 20 ft or 6.1 m to 26 ft or 7.9 m
Length: 131 ft or 40 m
Width: 114 ft or 35 m
Weight: 2400 tons 2,700 short tons or 2,400,000 kg; 5,400,000 lb
No comments:
Post a Comment