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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