In 2005, its precious cargo was space shuttle Discovery; for its last trip at the end of May, the crawler will transport space shuttle Atlantis to its final launch. NASA hide caption ...

NASA Diesel-Powered Shuttle Hauler - The Crawler. NASA's Diesel-Powered Shuttle Movers. Courtesy of NASA Writer May 17, 2007. See All 16 Photos. See All 16 Photos.

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.

CT-1's odometer reads 1,960 miles (3,154 km), according to the 2015 NASA feature. That machine was earmarked for use by private companies after the shuttles retired.

This is NASA’s new giant crawler for its next ... Then they were retrofitted for the space shuttle. Now, the Crawler-Transported 2 has been upgraded to “to increase the lifted-load capacity ...

Crawler-transporter 2, referred to as CT-2, lumbered out of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building last Wednesday (Feb. 18) to begin the 4.2-mile (6.8 km) trek to Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in ...

In 1965, a pair of gigantic crawlers were built to move the Saturn V moon rockets to the launch pad. Half a century later, they are still in service. To celebrate, the 6 million-lb Crawler ...

Rockets can't just drive themselves to the launchpad — so NASA has two of the biggest vehicles ever built to get them there. Weighing in at 6 million pounds, the crawler-transporters have been ...

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 ...

The Crawler-Transporter 2, with NASA's mobile launcher atop, makes its way up the ramp to the top of Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 31, 2018.

NASA is finally rolling its hulking Space Launch System (SLS) rocket out to the launch pad. The agency’s (equally-hulking) Crawler-Transporter 2 (CT-2) will ferry the 5.75-million-pound rocket ...

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