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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign positioned near one of the giant tracks of NASA's Crawler-Transporter 2 identifies the Artemis-upgraded, Apollo-era vehicle ...

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 ...

The space agency's Crawler Transporter 2 has officially broken the Guinness World Record for the heaviest self-powered vehicle. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 was originally ...

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 ...

The high-speed journeys our space rockets take to wherever they’re going always begin with a very slow crawl from the place where they are assembled to the launch pad. For NASA rockets, the last trip ...

The Guinness World Records is spotlighting an underappreciated piece of NASA hardware. Crawler Transporter 2 is now recognized as “the heaviest self-powered vehicle.” The transporter sits beneath NASA ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Its work is done — NASA’s Crawler-Transporter 2 has given Artemis II a ride to the launchpad. Built in 1965, it is an iconic machine whose work has spanned nearly the entire ...

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 ...

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