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Topic: NASA Crawler-Transporter 2500 Miles insignia

Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 09-26-2024 10:48 PM

NASA's crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) rolled past its 2,500th mile on Wednesday (Sept. 25) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It reached the milestone while teams with NASA's Exploration Ground Systems took it on a trip in preparation for supporting the roll of the mobile launcher from Launch Pad 39B back into the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) ahead of the Artemis II launch.

Built originally to transport massive Saturn V rockets during the Apollo Program, crawler-transporter 2 continued its service during the Space Shuttle Program, and currently transports the massive SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher as part of the agency's Artemis campaign.

To mark the milestone, a plaque was created that included this insignia:

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