Gallery: NASA Upgrades Giant Rocket-Carrying Vehicle
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The crawler under construction in 1964.
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A view of Crawler 1 in 1964.
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Delivering the Saturn V rocket with Apollo 10 to the launch pad in 1969.
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Apollo 11, which sent the first humans to the moon in 1969, rolls out from the vehicle assembly building.
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President Jimmy Carter learns about the crawler during a tour of Kennedy Space Center in 1978.
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Space Shuttle Columbia makes its way toward the launch pad for NASA's first ever shuttle launch in 1980.
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Space Shuttle Columbia's first launch.
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Space Shuttle Discovery prepares for the second servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope in 1997.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour gets ready for launch on STS-67, which at the time was the longest shuttle mission to date at 16 days.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis before the last shuttle flight in 2011.
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The upgraded Crawler 2 goes on a test drive.
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The upgraded Crawler 2 leaves the vehicle assembly building.
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