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The Buran-Energia stack being pulled to the pad by two sets of locomotives. They did things big in the USSR.
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The crawler transporter was powered by 4 Alco locomotive engines one for each set of tracks
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And before they settled on the crawler transporter, NASA had planned to transport Saturn V and larger rockets to the pad, carried vertically, on a barge.
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Too bad they didn’t know how to build a roof properly...
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Yeah. That was rough.