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" To: 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 >>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/ >> >>____________________________________________________________ >>Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com >>To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: >>http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching >> >>Arizona's Geocaching Resource >>http://www.azgeocaching.com > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com