NPR interviews the Crawler Crew
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“Before space shuttle Atlantis can carry astronauts up on the very last shuttle mission ever, workers on the ground first have to carry Atlantis to the launchpad.
The last shuttle launch is planned for July 8. But the shuttle’s final trek to the launch pad is Tuesday night. It’s a historic milestone for NASA — and a very personal one for the people in charge of taking the shuttle on this first leg of its final journey.
“It’s a bittersweet feeling. You hate to see anything come to an end,” says Bill Couch, one of only six people certified to drive “the crawler,” a massive beast of a machine that carries the shuttle to the pad.”
Read (or listen to) the full interview here
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