New payload transporters arrive at KSC.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-24 January 2000-NASA: New payload transporters arrive at KSC (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21012000 NASA's long wait for a pair of new transporters for Shuttle payload canisters finally ended as they arrived by barge on Monday, Jan. 17 from their manufacturer, the KAMAG Transporttechnik, GmbH, of Ulm, Germany.

The transporters, which carry spacecraft and International Space Station elements from payload facilities to and from the launch pads and the orbiter hangars, completed the process of a long-term analysis for the need for payload transporters to support Space Shuttle programs well into the new millennium. Now that the transporters have arrived at KSC, engineers and technicians are being trained on its operation and...