The crawler-transporters, formally known as the Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities, [2] are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport launch vehicles from NASA 's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) …

Mar 31, 2025 · A pair of behemoth machines called crawler-transporters have carried the load of taking rockets and spacecraft to the launch pad for more than 50 years at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center …

The Crawler-Transporters, formally recognized as the Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities, is a pair of trailed vehicles used to move spacecraft from NASA’s (VAB) Vehicle Assembly Building at the …

1 day ago · Crawler-Transporter 2: The Gentle Giant This wasn’t your ordinary Monday afternoon stroll. The crawler, CT-2 if you’re into romance with machinery, was set to transport NASA’s Space Launch …

May 20, 2025 · The two Crawler-Transporters are the world’s largest self-propelled land vehicles. They were designed and built by Marion Power Shovel Company, Marion, Ohio, and were assembled on …

A pair of behemoth machines called crawler-trans-porters have carried the load of taking rockets and spacecraft to the launch pad for more than 50 years at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The two tracked Crawler-Transporters previously used to move the assembled Apollo/Saturn from the VAB to the launch pad are now used for transporting Shuttle vehicles.

4 days ago · The slow-moving trip takes place via the Crawler-Transporter 2, a massive vehicle responsible for hauling some of the largest rockets ever built.

23 hours ago · Crawler-Transporter The machine which transports the massive SLS rocket from the Vehicle Assembly Buliding to the launch pad has served NASA for more than five decades.

Once at the pad, the crawler lowers the mobile launcher onto the pad pedestals. The transporter then moves to a park site away from the pad to avoid pos-sible damage from launch.