'To have a Guinness Worlds Records title is icing on the cake for an extraordinary piece of equipment.'
."These upgrades, which included replacing the two massive locomotive engines that provide power to the four sets of caterpillar tracks and strengthening various other systems, brought the vehicle's overall weight up to what it is now.
In fact, both of NASA's crawler-transporters previously shared the record after they were built by the Marion Power Shovel Company in 1966. Originally designed toand their mobile platforms as they moved from the Vehicle Assembly Building to either launch pad 39A or 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the pair of giant tracked vehicles first weighed in around 5.95 million pounds .
Even at 700,000 pounds lighter than Crawler-Transporter 2 weighs today, both movers were in a class of their own. Later-built, land-based vehicles were larger and more massive, but required external power sources to function. The NASA twins generated all their own power.
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