>NASA and contractor engineers are troubleshooting cracked bearings in >the space agency's two Apollo-era crawler-transporters used to move >space shuttles from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad. > > http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0208/12crawler/ Question: Is the Space Shuttle stack still standing on the crawlers during launch? I find it amazing that the crawlers are still the original ones being used since 1965. I realize that the exhaust during launch is channeled horizontally to the sides, but if the Shuttles are in fact launching right off the crawlers.... That's at least 60 launches for one crawler over 37 years. I'm just surprised that something like that could last that long. --------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 4 hours behind UT (-4) http://www.geocities.com/tlj18_99 ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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