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KSC-06pd1981
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — On Launch Pad 39B, the crawler-transporter moves Space Shuttle Atlantis away from the rotating and fixed service structures, at right, on its rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building. First motion off the pad was at 10:04 a.m. EDT. The crawler is 131 feet long, 113 feet wide and 20 feet high. It weights 5.5 million pounds unloaded. The combined weight of crawler, mobile launcher platform and a space shuttle is 12 million pounds.
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Credit lineKSC-06pd1981. NASA/KSC, 2006-08-29. Public domain. ID: KSC-06pd1981.
