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 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 ...

The Crawler Transporter 2 is officially the heaviest self-powered vehicle on Earth. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and ...

Launch vehicles require a vast ground-based support system, which is an important part of the stories told at the National Air and Space Museum. Collecting these objects is challenging due to their ...

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 NASA ...

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 ...

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.

'To have a Guinness Worlds Records title is icing on the cake for an extraordinary piece of equipment.' It has taken seven years (or 57, depending on how you count), but now it is official: one of ...

GILLETTE — Next time NASA's crawler transporter makes the 4.2-mile trip from the assembly shop to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the massive, lumbering 1960s machine will have ...

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