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• Toyota Truck to Tow Shuttle Endeavour to Calif. Exhibit Home

  09/14/12, via Space.com

  The shuttle Endeavour will be towed using a Tundra CrewMax half-ton pickup, identical to 2012 models currently found in Toyota dealerships, with no additions to increase towing capacity or provide more power. The Tundra CrewMax is equipped with 

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• How a 2012 Toyota Tundra Towed an Icon

  10/14/12, via MotorTrend Magazine

  By Allyson Harwood | October 13, 2012 |. 70 This Tundra used the company's A-TRAC system and four-wheel drive to provide the traction the truck would need to move the Shuttle from a stop; of course, the Toyota came equipped with the tow package

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  12/17/14, via Edmunds.com

  Both are comfortable, capable of towing big loads and have respectable fuel economy. The 2015 Ford F-150 is completely redesigned and offers its own distinctive engine selection and more modern underpinnings. While the 2015 Toyota Tundra can hold its 

• A Huge Endeavour: Toyota Tundra Towing Space Shuttle Last Leg to Science Center

  09/13/12, via MotorTrend Magazine

  Toyota claims the 2012 Tundra used for the stunt is an unmodified CrewMax model with a 381-hp 5.7-liter V-8 under the hood. The truck's maximum sustained towing capacity is 10,000 pounds. This isn't the first time Toyota and the California Science

• 2012 Toyota Tundra is Texas built for Texans

  08/14/12, via Examiner.com

  A Tundra Work Truck Package is aimed at commercial truck buyers or customers who need a tough, no-frills truck with exceptional cargo and towing capacity. The package features heavy-duty vinyl-trimmed seating surfaces, and heavy-duty all-weather 

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  07/06/15, via The Car Connection

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Toyota Truck to Tow Shuttle Endeavour to Calif. Exhibit Home - Space.com

Space shuttle Endeavour has been moved by rockets, its own engines and thrusters, tank-like transporters and industrial tows. Now retired and museum- bound, the NASA winged orbiter will add another, perhaps unexpected form of locomotion to its well-travelled history: a Toyota Tundra pickup truck. Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. 12) that its Tundra full-size pickup truck is slated to tow Endeavour during its delivery to the California Science Center (CSC), where both the space shuttle and truck are destined for display. Endeavour will travel the 12 miles (19 kilometers) from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to the science center on city streets, with the Tundra towing the shuttle during the last quarter mile (400 meters). 14), NASA will prepare Endeavour to fly atop its modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to LAX. The public will be able to watch as the Toyota Tundra tows the shuttle the final way to its new temporary home, the CSC's Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion, which will mark the finale of the orbiter's cross-country and... [ How NASA Flies Shuttles on 747 Jets (Photos) ]. Toyota tested. Once on the ground at LAX, Endeavour will be hoisted off its carrier aircraft and then lowered onto a modified NASA overland transporter originally used to move the shuttles from their Palmdale, Calif. Source: www.space.com

How a 2012 Toyota Tundra Towed an Icon - MotorTrend Magazine

For most of the way from LAX to the California Science Center, the Space Shuttle Endeavour was going to ride on a modified version of a NASA overland transporter. For this Shuttle’s journey, the transporter would be driven by four robotic vehicles. There was one problem, though: the weight of the four robotic vehicles plus the Endeavour, approximately 650,000 pounds, was going to be too heavy to cross the Manchester Bridge. The Tundra in question was a bone-stock CrewMax with a 6. 5-foot bed and the 381-horsepower, 5. 7-liter V-8, rolling off the same line in San Antonio, Texas, as all Toyota Tundras do. This Tundra used the company’s A-TRAC system and four-wheel... of course, the Toyota came equipped with the tow package. Toyota had done tests ahead of time with a higher amount of weight than the Shuttle/transporter combo, and it did well there. Sitting on Manchester Boulevard, ready to roll, there was still plenty of prep work to complete before the tow began. By the time press and VIPs arrived, the Shuttle had been disconnected from the robotic dollys and waited for its connection to the back of the Tundra, where it would be towed not with a gooseneck or fifth-wheel, but with a regular-size steel hitch. Source: wot.motortrend.com

A Huge Endeavour: Toyota Tundra Towing Space Shuttle Last Leg to Science Center - MotorTrend Magazine

From the “we didn’t see this coming” department, a 2012 Toyota Tundra CrewMax truck will tow the 300,000-pound space shuttle Endeavour the last leg to its permanent home at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. To prepare for such a project, Toyota worked with The Sarens Group, a heavy lifting and transport company, to develop a custom heavy-duty dolly. Toyota claims the 2012 Tundra used for the stunt is an unmodified CrewMax model with a 381-hp 5. 7-liter V-8 under the hood. The truck’s maximum sustained towing capacity is 10,000 pounds. This isn’t the first time Toyota and the California Science Center have worked together. Toyota has had a partnership with the Science Center, and currently has a Tundra on display at the museum as part of an exhibit demonstrating the physics of leverage. That truck will be replaced by the one towing the Endeavour when the Endeavour exhibit opens on October 30. . The main argument is that if you are a domestic manufacturer, playing off the Buy American side of things, it is hypocritical to also... Toyota has manufacturing plants in the US, they use US made goods, and instead of moving their plants out of the country, they are moving more into the country. Source: wot.motortrend.com

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