Shuttle Crawlers Star

Credit: NASA
The shuttle orbiter Endeavour descends the ramp from Launch Complex 39B Oct. 23 on its crawler transporter en route to Pad 39A, the first such vehicle/pad switch in Apollo-Saturn or space shuttle program history. It was one of the busiest weeks for the 2,700-ton twin crawler transporters in the 45...

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