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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In the early hours of Friday, March 20, Artemis II began its return to the launchpad—following a rollback for helium system fixes and other checks with the spotlight once again on NASA’s towering ...

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 ...