[Az-Geocaching] RE: Vehicle of choice

[Brian Casteel]

Results 1 - 10 of about 15,200 for shuttle crawler. (0.26 seconds)

I'll tell ya what, that quarter-second really took it out of me.  :)

Brian
Team A.I.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roping The Wind" <arizcowboy@hotmail.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] RE: Vehicle of choice


> Geez, you guys have way too much time on your hands...  shouldnt you be 
> out geocaching instead!?  :) LOL  ;)
>
> Scott
> Team Ropingthewind
>
>
>>From: Jim Scotti <jscotti@pirl.lpl.Arizona.EDU>
>>Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>>To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] RE: Vehicle of choice
>>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:14:17 -0700 (MST)
>>
>>Thanks Brian,
>>     Sounds like it gets about 37 feet per gallon - I thought 8 gallons 
>> per
>>foot sounded a bit steep.....
>>     BTW, the crawler maintains its payload perfectly upright even while
>>crawling up the slope of the launchpads.  Quite a feat of engineering. 
>>It's
>>impressive to watch - I saw the rollout for the very first Space Shuttle
>>launch.  The shuttle on the crawler just creeped along and during the time
>>that the crew for that flight (John Young and Bob Crippen) talked to the
>>crowd the spacecraft and crawler moved slowly along behind them - you 
>>could
>>just barely see it moving and it traveled maybe 1000 feet or so while they
>>talked.  That was in December 1980.
>>
>>Jim.
>>
>>On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Brian Casteel wrote:
>>
>> > After some google action, I came across this:
>> >
>> > Explanation: NASA's Crawler-Transporters are the largest tracked
>>vehicles in
>> > existence. Although the crawlers pack over 5,000 horsepower, their top
>>speed
>> > is less than two kilometers per hour when fully loaded. Eleven people
>>are
>> > needed to drive a single crawler. Diesel fuel mileage is about 350
>>liters
>> > per kilometer (less than 0.007 miles per gallon). The crawler's 
>> > function
>>is
>> > to move NASA's space shuttles -- complete with launch platforms -- from
>>the
>> > Assembly Building to the Launch Pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida,
>>USA.
>> > Two of these massive machines have operated since the Apollo era and
>>have
>> > now crawled over 4,000 kilometers, all the while keeping their contents
>> > perfectly upright. In this picture a crawler transports the shuttle
>>Columbia
>> > to the pad prior to its March 1st launch on the latest Hubble Space
>> > Telelescope Servicing Mission.
>> >
>> > Based on these figures, it looks like the Crawler uses 924.7 gallons of
>>fuel
>> > to cover the approximate distance of 6.21 miles.  Sounds like some of
>> > today's oversized, underutilized status symbols.  :)
>> >
>> > Brian
>> >
>> > Team A.I.
>> >
>>
>>Jim Scotti
>>Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
>>University of Arizona
>>Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/
>>
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