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 ...

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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. ...

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 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 ...

While the crew of Apollo 9 was still orbiting Earth on this day in 1969, preparations were already underway on the ground for the next critical step in the race to the Moon.

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Media are invited to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 13 to mark the 40th anniversary of the use of crawler transporters in advancing space flight. In January 1966, the crawler completed its ...