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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 ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA's crawler-transporter II is now the Guinness World Record holder for the heaviest self-propelled vehicle on the planet. "Congratulations to the entire crawler team, and the ...

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 ...

It has taken seven years (or 57, depending on how you count), but now it is official: one of NASA's Apollo-era rocket movers is the heaviest self-powered vehicle in the world. Guinness World Records ...

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.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 27, 2018 ” Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has helped transport a modified mobile launcher between the vehicle assembly facility and launch pad 39B at Kennedy Space ...

NASA’s two crawler transporter vehicles soon will sport new “shoes.” A $10 million project to replace the 456 tread belt shoes, weighing more than one ton each, on both crawlers at Kennedy Space ...

The above image shows a crawler-transporter arriving at Launch Pad 39A to pick up a shuttle-era mobile launcher platform and move up and down a ramp to test how well the systems work while carrying a ...

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 ...

'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 ...