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NASA has a 6 million pound 'crawler' it uses to transport spacecraft

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Rockets can't just drive themselves to the launchpad — so NASA has two of the biggest vehicles ever built to get them there. Weighing in at 6 million pounds, the crawler-transporters have been in use since the Apollo program to get vehicles from the assembly building to the launch facility.

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