Final preparations for the launch of an Apollo mission began weeks in advance, when a 2,700-tonne diesel-powered crawler/transporter employing tracked tractor units derived from heavy open-cast mining equipment entered the 160-metre-tall vehicle assembly building (VAB), jacked itself up under a platform bearing a service tower and a complete but unfuelled Apollo/Saturn space vehicle — a combined load of 5,700 tonnes — and carried it out through one of the VAB’s massive doors and along a 5 1/2-kilometre crawlerway to one of two launch complexes, 39A or 39B, from which the rocket would make its fiery departure.


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    Titel :

    Launch: a fiery departure


    Beteiligte:
    Woods, W. David (Herausgeber:in)

    Erschienen in:

    How Apollo Flew to the Moon ; Kapitel : 3 ; 53-88


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2008-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    36 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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