With an eye towards the future, NASA commemorated the first 50 years of its two rocket-carrying crawler-transporters on Monday (Feb. 23) by taking one of the newly-upgraded massive machines out for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — When he's not at work, Sam Dove drives a Chevy Silverado 1500. But on the job, he gets behind the wheel of ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Its work is done — NASA’s Crawler-Transporter 2 has given Artemis II a ride to the launchpad. Built in ...

The 11 million pound towering structure to be used for liftoffs of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rolled from a construction site to pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop Crawler ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like a massive mechanical Atlas bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders, NASA's Crawler-Transporter 2 will soon slowly ...

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, carrying NASA’s Artemis 2 SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft secured to mobile launcher 1, rolls back Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, to the Vehicle ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — It is an iconic machine whose work has spanned nearly the entire history of NASA. And without it, the Saturn V rocket and space shuttle launches would not have been possible.

The largest and heaviest self-propelled ground vehicle on the planet, per Guinness, sits at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Creatively dubbed Crawler-Transporter 2, this monstrosity is the ...

The crawler-transporter that will carry NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B for launch on Exploration Mission-1 in 2017 recently passed the first phase of an ...

Inside NASA’s giant rocket garage the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). The video explores the VAB’s cranes, platforms, and the crawler transporter used to move large spacecraft. Dubbed in over 20 ...

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2), is one of two vehicles originally designed to haul the Saturn V rockets from Apollo era to Kennedy Space Center’s launch pads. It continued its piggyback service ...

NASA’s two crawler transporter vehicles soon will sport new “shoes.” A $10 million project to replace the 456 tread belt shoes, weighing more than one ton each, on both crawlers at Kennedy Space ...