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 ...

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 ...

Like a massive mechanical Atlas bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders, NASA’s Crawler-Transporter 2 will soon slowly scoot the Artemis II rocket and mobile launch tower back to the pad so ...

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.

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 Crawler-Transporter 2's two-day, 4.2-mile journey was completed with near-perfect accuracy, missing its mark by only three-quarters of an inch. The Artemis II mobile launcher is now inside the ...

NASA's Crawler-Transporter 2 is tasked with moving the Artemis II rocket for the upcoming moon mission. The vehicle holds the Guinness World Record for the heaviest self-powered vehicle. Originally ...

With sloth-like speed, NASA's mighty Crawler-Transporter 2 crept nearly imperceptibly into High Bay 3 at the Vehicle Assembly Building. Borne on its back: the 380-foot-tall mobile tower from the ...