Rockets like Artemis II are big and heavy. Here's how specialized crawler transporters safely move them from assembly bays to launch pads.

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 ...

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 above image shows a crawler-transporter arriving at Launch Pad 39A to pick up a shuttle-era mobile launcher platform and move up and down a ramp to test how well the systems work while carrying a ...

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To get its Artemis moongoing spacecraft to the launchpad, NASA uses a giant vehicle powered by huge diesel engines that originally had a very different mission.

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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 ...