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KSC-05pd-0602
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — Space Shuttle Discovery, atop the Mobile Launcher Platform, has left the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on its way to Launch Pad 39B. First motion out of the VAB was at 2:04 p.m. EDT. The Mobile Launcher Platform is moved by the Crawler-Transporter underneath. The Crawler is 20 feet high, 131 feet long and 114 feet wide. It moves on eight tracks, each containing 57 shoes, or cleats, weighing one ton each.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05pd-0602. NASA/KSC, 2005-04-06. Public domain. ID: 05pd0602.
