Crawlerway
Sign in to saveThe Crawlerway is a double pathway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It runs between the Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Complex 39. It has a length of to Pad 39A and Pad 39B, respectively. A bed of stones lies beneath a layer of asphalt and a surface made of Alabama river rocks.
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- Instance of
- gravel road
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Brevard County
- Location
- Kennedy Space Center
- Image
- VAB Aerial - GPN-2000-000869 (cropped).jpg
- Width
- 39.6
- Length
- 6.8
- Significant event
- construction
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- Crawlerway
- capital cost
- 7500000
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The Crawlerway is a double pathway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It runs between the Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Complex 39. It has a length of to Pad 39A and Pad 39B, respectively. A bed of stones lies beneath a layer of asphalt and a surface made of Alabama river rocks.
The Crawlerway was originally designed to support the weight of the Saturn V rocket and its payload, plus the Launch Umbilical Tower and mobile launcher platform, atop a crawler-transporter during the Apollo program. It was also used from 1981 to 2011 to transport the lighter Space Shuttles to their launch pads.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Crawlerway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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