"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
01/15/2017 at 21:57 • Filed to: Spacelopnik | 4
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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.
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> f86sabre
01/15/2017 at 22:01 |
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The crawler transporter was powered by 4 Alco locomotive engines one for each set of tracks
DarkCreamyBeer
> My X-type is too a real Jaguar
01/15/2017 at 22:38 |
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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.
facw
> f86sabre
01/15/2017 at 22:44 |
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Too bad they didn’t know how to build a roof properly...
f86sabre
> facw
01/16/2017 at 12:18 |
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Yeah. That was rough.