MOC HK-24-01 - NASA crawler transporter
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 MOC HK-24-01 NASA crawler transporter 
 for LEGO Icons 10341 NASA Artemis Space Launch System 
MOC HK-24-01 - NASA crawler transporter

© by Harald Kränzel, July 2024



After the first images of the LEGO set Icons 10341 NASA Artemis Space Launch System were published, there were comments and questions as to why LEGO did it this way and not differently.
One of the questions was: “Why does the set only contain the launch platform with service tower in addition to the SLS rocket and NOT the crawler transporter?” This prompted me to take a close look at this crawler transporter and implement it in the MOC HK-2024-01-NASA Crawler Transporter (By the way: the used scale is approx. 1:160).

The crawler can be built in two variants:

1. with interior (under the white platform)
NASA Crawler NASA Crawler with interior

and

2. without interior
NASA Crawler without interior

Dimensions in cm
Height                                    4.8                                    
Width 21.7
Length 35.3
total parts / total lots           with interior 1306 / 151 without interior 1096 / 103




NASA Crawler
     NASA Crawler with interior
From the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building), the place where the SLS rocket (seen in the image above as LEGO Set 10341 NASA Artemis Space Launch System) is erected on the mobile launcher 1, it goes with the help of the NASA crawler transporter (seen in image above as MOC HK-24-01 under the mobile launcher 1) and a speed of approx. 1 mph to Pad 39B.
Once at Pad 39B, the mobile launcher 1 is firmly anchored to the ground in six places (grey colored supports) and the NASA crawler transporter is driven back towards the VAB and parked there for the next task.





As always, the building instructions is available free of charge under the following link:

NASA crawler transporter:   moc-hk-24-01-nasa-crawler-transporter-1-160-bi
Here you will find building instructions for both variants of the NASA crawler transporter as shown in the images above.

A complete list of all needed bricks for NASA crawler variant 1 you can find in xml file for NASA crawler with interior
A complete list of all needed bricks for NASA crawler variant 2 you can find in xml file for NASA crawler without interior
Both files in Bricklink format to upload it to Bricklink.