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.

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 ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA said Monday that it has discovered more cracked equipment, this time in the massive 1960s-vintage movers used to haul space shuttles to the launch pads. The problem was ...

The director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center is retiring on the heels of Artemis II, the first crewed spaceflight to venture beyond low-Earth orbit in more than 50 years. NASA announced Janet Petro's ...

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 ...