Guinness World Records on Wednesday (March 29) presented the space agency with a certificate confirming that Crawler-Transporter 2 tipped the scale at 6.65 million pounds (3,106 tonnes), or about ...

Russia’s loose cannon of a space boss is sending mixed messages about the future of the International Space Station. Among the conflicting statements from Director-General Dmitry Rogozin, the ...

Locomotive engines revved and diesel fumes puffed from four exhaust pipes on Monday morning to signal that a NASA crawler-transporter was ready to roll into its next half-century. "We're moving ...

Crawler-transporter receives new roller bearing assemblies. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 27, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 04 / 130402101553.htm ...

With an eye towards the future, NASA commemorated the first 50 years of its two rocket-carrying crawler-transporters on Monday (Feb. 23) by taking one of the newly-upgraded massive machines out ...

The Crawler-transporter-2 (CT-2) on its way from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the Park Site west of the Kennedy Space Center. Photo: NASA/Jim Grossmann NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 was ...

Driving the world’s largest vehicle? Even more so. NASA’s Crawler-Transporter II, the massive rocket hauler which weighs in at 6.6 million pounds unloaded, comes with quite a learning curve ...

NASA announced its Crawler Transporter 2 is now officially in the Guinness World Records as the heaviest self-powered vehicle in the world. But there's a whole universe of big beefy vehicles right ...

NASA’s giant crawler transporter that carried the Apollo missions and the Space Shuttles to the launch pad is getting an upgrade. In service since the mid-1960s, the 2,495 tonne (2,750 ton ...

And to move it, it needs help from the crawler-transporter 2, which just minutes ago at the time of writing started moving into the VAB (check tweet below). This amazing machine traces its roots ...

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 ...