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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — When he's not at work, Sam Dove drives a Chevy Silverado 1500. But on the job, he gets behind the wheel of ...

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 machine covers four and a half miles of Florida flatland on the run to Pad 39B, burning one gallon of diesel every 32 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Look at it as you will, but the reality is the Artemis lunar exploration program, humanity’s second such endeavor, is off to a bumpy start. Sure, you could argue Apollo’s journey was even bumpier, but ...

The crawler-transporter that will carry NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B for launch on Exploration Mission-1 in 2017 recently passed the first phase of an ...

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 ...