How do you safely move a 5.75 million-pound, 322-foot-high rocket more than 4 miles from the assembly building to the launch pad and back? Flag down the Crawler-Transporter 2, or CT-2, the slow-moving ...

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.

Just moving out the moon-bound rocket to the launch pad was an incredible engineering feat. Watch how NASA got it done. ARTEMIS ON CRAWLERArtemis II, which consists of the Orion crew capsule with the ...

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 ...

NASA prepares to haul the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and mobile launcher back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs beginning Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, pending weather ...

NASA’s preparations for the Artemis II mission continue to gain momentum with a major milestone reached by the crawler-transporter 2, the massive vehicle responsible for transporting launch equipment ...

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 ...

GILLETTE — Next time NASA's crawler transporter makes the 4.2-mile trip from the assembly shop to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the massive, lumbering 1960s machine will have ...