How did I get here?

jtotheizzoe:

Meet the folks who are driving Atlantis out to the launch pad for the final shuttle mission. The crawler is a vehicle as wide as a highway that only gets 32 feet to the gallon and would sink under the weight of its 18 million pound cargo were it to drive off the specially designed 3.5 mile road. 

 ”Even driving at 0.8 miles an hour, if you’re not paying attention, it will get away from you,” Couch says. “So how does it handle? Eh, you’ve got to watch it.”

Let’s start pooling our money to buy one of the surplus crawlers! Who’s with me? I got $5 on it.

(via Who Will Shuttle The Last Shuttle? NASA’s Crawler Crew)

(via itsfullofstars)