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 ...

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 ...

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.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA's crawler-transporter II is now the Guinness World Record holder for the heaviest self-propelled vehicle on the planet. "Congratulations to the entire crawler team, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Locomotive engines revved and diesel fumes puffed from four exhaust pipes on Monday morning to signal that a NASA crawler-transporter was ready to roll into its next half-century. "We're moving," said ...

NASA’s two crawler transporter vehicles soon will sport new “shoes.” A $10 million project to replace the 456 tread belt shoes, weighing more than one ton each, on both crawlers at Kennedy Space ...

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 ...

For more than a year, NASA's crawler-transporter (CT) 2 has been undergoing a major tuneup in the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Recent work has included preparations to ...

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 ...