You hate to see anything come to an end," says Bill Couch, one of only six people certified to drive "the crawler," a massive beast of a machine that carries the shuttle to the pad. The space ...

The Crawler Transporter (CT) is drivenunderneath the launch platform and shuttle stack, thenlifts it off the VAB hard stand. At this point you have literally a full launchpad and space vehicle on ...

So it is at the Kennedy Space Center where the crawler transporters ... in the VAB and then rolled out to the pad. Last Shuttle roll out of the crawler transporter (Image: NASA) Moving up to ...

"Thinking back on all that the crawler has done in the last 50 years, from the Apollo program to the space shuttle program, is really incredible." [Apollo's Moon Missions in Photos] CT-1 and CT-2 ...

doing their job carrying the most powerful vehicle-the 27-million-horsepower space shuttle-to the launch site. See All 16 Photos * The overall length and width of the Crawler is 131 by 113 feet.

A Crawler Transporter moves out from underneath the Mobile Launch Platform after bringing Space Shuttle Discovery to the launch pad prior to a 2001 launch. NASA Both the mobile launch platforms ...

The final journey for the last space shuttle ever built is complete ... crane to hoist Endeavour’s tail while a larger, 40-story crawler crane used a sling to carefully lift its nose.

One of NASA's historic crawler-transporters used to move spaceflight ... and they did so until modifications were needed for the space shuttle program's first test transport in 1979.

All 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida ... and is then moved by the Crawler Transporter (CT) to one of the two launch pads. The launch pad is made of the Fixed Service Structure ...

With 39th President Jimmy Carter passing away at the age of 100, we are revisiting this story of how he unexpectedly saved the space shuttle. We’d been chatting for the better part of two hours ...

Scobee knelt to crawl into the orbiter ... and liftoff, liftoff of the 25th space shuttle mission, and it has cleared the tower.” In the grandstands, Ed and Grace Corrigan stood side by side ...