Crawlerway
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| Crawlerway | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Brevard County, Florida  United States |
| Nearest city: | Merritt Island |
| Built/Founded: | 1964 |
| Added to NRHP: | January 21, 2000 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 99001641 |
The Crawlerway is a 100 foot wide (30-meter wide) double pathway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. The pathway was designed to support the weight of a Saturn V rocket plus Crawler-Transporter during the Apollo Program. It is still used to transport the lighter Space Shuttle to the launchpad. A seven foot bed of crushed stone lies beneath a layer of asphalt and a rock surface.
The Crawlerway runs between the Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Complex 39 and has a length of 3.5 miles (5.6 km). Alongside it, there is a two-lane road used mostly by tour buses to bring visitors to the viewing gantry on regular tours and to the actual pads on VIP tours. Just north of the gantry, a section of the Crawlerway forks off and heads north to launch pad 39-B. The straight section continues east before turning north to launch pad 39-A.
[edit] References
- Florida, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, 2004, pg 186
- Brevard County listings at the National Register of Historic Places
- Crawlerway at Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
- Crawlerway is at coordinates Coordinates:
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 Up close photo of the crawlerway after STS-114 left the VAB for the pad |
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