NASA's crawler playing key role in Artemis Program. ... And it’s just a couple miles away from hitting 2,500 miles, transporting 100s of rockets and shuttles to and from the pad.

For NASA rockets, the last trip they take on this Earth is done with the help of something called Crawler Transporter 2. And the thing is now the holder of an official Guinness World Records ...

NASA's historic crawler-transporter hardware has finally thrown around its weight ... and they did so until modifications were needed for the space shuttle program's first test transport in 1979.

Guinness World Records designated NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 as the heaviest self-powered vehicle, weighing roughly 6.65 million pounds. At a March 29, 2023, ceremony at the agency's Kennedy ...

NASA's John Giles, who oversees the 60-year-old crawler-transporter at Kennedy Space Center, worries every time his team has to haul the mega moon rocket back to its hangar.

NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) in Florida is one of the most iconic and essential structures in the history of space exploration. This massive facility, located at the Kennedy Space Center, ...

Each shuttle launch cost about $1.5 billion on average, according to a 2018 paper from a researcher at NASA’s Ames Research Center. That’s hundreds of millions of dollars more than what the ...

In all, NASA operated five shuttles in space. Shuttle Challenger and its crew were lost in a launch accident Jan. 28, 1986. Columbia and its crew were lost during return from orbit Feb. 1, 2003.

The space shuttle program would go on to become one of NASA’s most celebrated. After 135 missions carrying more than 350 astronauts into orbit, the shuttles were retired in 2011 .

NASA's historic crawler-transporter hardware has finally thrown around its weight enough – literally – to gain recognition in Guinness World Records.