Includes 7 LEGO® City minifigures: 2 astronauts, 2 ground crew technicians, a Launch Director, scientist and a lab mechanic, plus a robot figure.This cool construction toy also includes a ground build with 2 new-for-June-2019 geodes and a light pole, 7 minifigures and a robot figure. There's a rover lab with rotating arm tool, opening doors and raising platform, plus a large crawler with track wheels and a tilting launch pad, truck with articulated, new-for-June-2019 grappling arm and flatbed, and a rover with extending arm and drill. This incredible LEGO® City 60229 Rocket Assembly & Transport kids’ toy features a large multi-stage rocket with opening 2-minifigure cockpit and rover payload module, launch control room with rotating satellite dish and a rocket assembly crane with winch. Give young space adventurers a treat with a NASA-inspired rocket launch set, which is great for independent play. In their lifetime, they have traveled more than 5,500 km (3,400 mi), about the same driving distance as from Miami to Seattle.You were born to explore the universe! Build and inspire the next generation of astronauts with LEGO® Space rockets and vehicles – Let’s Go!.Each of the two crawlers cost about US $14 million !!!.Kennedy Space Center has been using the same two crawlers, nicknamed “Hans” and “Franz”.The average trip time from the VAB along the Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39 is about five hours. ![]() The maximum speed of crawler is 1.6 km/h (1 mph) loaded, or 3.2 km/h (2 mph) unloaded.The crawler is controlled from two control cabs located at either end of the vehicle, and travels along the 5.6 km (3.5 mi) crawlerway.The new upgrade to one of the crawlers increased it’s capacity from 5,400,000 to 8,200,000 kg.The crawler’s tanks holds 19,000 liters (5,000 U.S. gal) of diesel fuel, and it roughly burns 296 liters per kilometer (125.7 U.S.As of 2003, each crawler had 16 traction motors, powered by four 1,000 kW (1,341 hp) generators, in turn driven by two 2,050 kW (2,750 hp) V16 ALCO 251C diesel engines.The height from ground level to the platform is adjustable from 6.1 to 7.9 m (20 to 26 ft), and each side can be raised and lowered independently. The vehicle measures 40 by 35 metres (131 by 114 ft).The crawler has a mass of 2,721,000 kilograms (5,999,000 lb) and has eight tracks, two on each corner.The crawler-transporter is the largest self-powered land vehicle in the world.It runs between the Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Complex 39. The Crawlerway is a 40 m double pathway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch Complex 39 is composed of three launch pads-39A, 39B and 39C. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, USA. ![]() Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. ![]() So how are they transported ? The answer is – CRAWLER a true engineering marvel ! What is Crawler ?Ĭrawlers are a pair of tracked vehicles used by NASA to transport rockets & space shuttles from NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to the Launch Complex 39 ! Today huge trucks carry massive amounts of load & the best example is the biggest truck in the world – The BelAZ 75710 which can carry 450 tons of dirt. Still, there was something left, something to be made to carry these massive rockets & space shuttles. Then he started building machines to carry even more load & to transport faster. ![]() Human being started using animals to carry load when it exceeded his carrying capacity.
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