Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!eder From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Re: re:my car is slower than yours Message-ID: <323@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 12:47:41 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.323 Posted: Wed Jan 9 12:47:41 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:00:06 EST References: <885@ihuxx.UUCP> <55200126@trsvax.UUCP> <7066@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 17 > This last weekend's edition of the PBS program "Newton's Apple" had a > special on the shuttle and the astronaut training program. They mentioned > the "transporter" which moves the completely-assembled spacecraft & > boosters from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad had a > "mileage" rating of 35 feet per gallon of fuel (diesel, I believe). > (I believe that this is the heaviest moving vehicle on earth, by the way.) The 'Crawler-Transporter' has a maximum speed (unloaded) of 2 mph, and a loaded speed of 1 mph. It is powered by two 2750 horsepower diesel engines, which drive generators that provide electrical power to the 16 traction motors. The CT weighs 3000 tons, and the pad and Shuttle weigh 5500 tons. Thus the moving weight is 8500 tons. This may be the largest land vehicle, but is puny compared to oil tankers and offshore drilling platforms. The oil tankers mass 400000 tons loaded. Dani Eder / Boeing Aerospace Company / uw-beaver!ssc-vax!eder