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NASA Crawler Transporter with Men in Tread Photograph
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Title
NASA
Crawler
Transporter
with
Men
in
Tread
Photograph
Subject
Transportation
Business and Labor
Marion Power Shovel Company
Equipment
Space vehicles
Flight
Aeronautics
Rockets
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Place
Marion (Ohio)
Marion County (Ohio)
Description
This
black
and
white
photograph
depicts
the
NASA
crawler
transporter
made
by
Marion
Power
Shovel
Company
.
Men
can
be
seen
standing
in the
crawler
tread
. The
photograph
was
taken
at the
Marion
Power
Shovel
Company's
Cheney
Avenue
plant
. The
crawler-transporter
was
built
there,
disassembled
and
shipped
to
Florida
, then
reassembled
. The
men
pictured
are
(from
left
to
right)
:
unknown
,
George
Clark
,
Robert
Brown
,
Harry
Gruber
,
unknown
,
Scotty
,
Carl
Lewis
,
Jess
Granlee
,
Casey
Garver
,
Joe
Moore
,
Bob
Brees
,
Doug
Blessing
,
unknown
, and
Bill
Fulcher
(foreman)
. This
photograph
measures
8
" by
10
"
(20.3
by
25.4
cm)
. In
1963
, the
U
.
S
.
National
Aeronautics
and
Space
Administration
(NASA)
selected
Marion
Power
Shovel
to
design
and
build
two
crawler
transporters
for the
John
F
.
Kennedy
Space
Center
in
Florida
. They were
originally
designed
to
pick
up
an
Apollo-Saturn
moon
vehicle
,
together
with its
launch
equipment
, and
haul
it
three
miles
to the
launch
site
. The
design
was
based
on
principles
used
in the
lower
works
of
stripping
shovels
that the
company
manufactured
. The
vehicles
have been
used
ever
since
;
most
recently
to
move
the
space
shuttles
with their
launch
rockets
to the
launch
site
.
Each
transporter
measures
114
feet
wide
by
133
feet
long
and
weighs
5.5
million
pounds
.
Date of Original
1966
circa
Source
Audiovisual material
2001.0018.017
Submitting Institution
Marion County Historical Society
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om2300_1921063_001.tif
Image Height
2285
Image Width
2845
File Size
2385.456 KB
Format
picture
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