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.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — When he’s not at work, Sam Dove drives a Chevy Silverado 1500. But on the job, he gets behind the wheel of a 16-million-pound behemoth that’s been transporting NASA’s rockets ...
NASA’s preparations for the Artemis II mission continue to gain momentum with a major milestone reached by the crawler-transporter 2, the massive vehicle responsible for transporting launch equipment ...
Nasa has, for the second time this year, rolled its colossal moon rocket from its hangar to the launchpad, hoping to send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around mission next month. If the latest ...
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 ...