Super Crawler Transporter for Saturn V MLV

Mission Profile

The Super Crawler Transporter for Saturn V MLV was a conceptual extremely large tracked vehicle studied in 1970 to transport proposed Saturn V Multi-purpose Launch Vehicle variants that were significantly larger and heavier than the standard Saturn V, exceeding the carrying capacity of the existing NASA crawlers. The design would have required a substantially wider and more powerful platform than the existing CT-1 and CT-2 crawlers to safely transport the uprated rocket stack from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad. Like the MLV program itself, the Super Crawler concept was studied as part of NASA's ambitious post-Apollo heavy-lift planning but was never built as the political and budgetary landscape following Apollo prevented any investment in expanded super-heavy lift infrastructure.