NASA is continuing preparations for the testing and eventual launch of its “mega moon rocket,” or Space Launch System. This rocket is designed to eventually carry astronauts back to the moon under the ...

Launching into space the fastest machines ever built by man always starts with a very slow drive on the ground, on the backs of the only two vehicles in existence capable of transporting the rockets ...

Explore NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) in this video, which highlights the cranes, platforms, and crawler used to ...

With sloth-like speed, NASA's mighty Crawler-Transporter 2 crept nearly imperceptibly into High Bay 3 at the Vehicle Assembly Building. Borne on its back: the 380-foot-tall mobile tower from the ...

Like a massive mechanical Atlas bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders, NASA’s Crawler-Transporter 2 will soon slowly scoot the Artemis II rocket and mobile launch tower back to the pad so ...

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.

They call it the crawler. In a long-anticipated event, NASA will haul its new moon-bound megarocket to a Kennedy Space Center launchpad on March 17. It's a dress rehearsal for the real, fiery show, ...

Everybody's favorite giant rocket truck is back in action. Today (March 11), NASA's crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) vehicle began to slowly "crawl" its way to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's ...