NASA began moving its Artemis II rocket towards launch pad
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When he’s not at work, Sam Dove drives a Chevy Silverado 1500. Dove gets to drive the crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2), which was one of two tracked vehicles originally designed to haul the Saturn V
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How a 1960s megastructure is carrying NASA back to the moon
In the early hours of Friday, March 20, Artemis II began its return to the launchpad—following a rollback for helium system fixes and other checks with the spotlight once again on NASA’s towering Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the astronauts preparing for humanity’s next journey around the Moon.
How do you safely move a 5.75 million-pound, 322-foot-high rocket more than 4 miles from the assembly building to the launch pad and back? Flag down the Crawler-Transporter 2, or CT-2, the slow-moving but mighty transport platform that’s been hauling ...
The Space Launch System rocket and Orion Spacecraft roll out on the CT-2 during the Artemis I mission. - NASA NASA is getting ready to send astronauts beyond Earth's orbit for the first time in decades. On track to launch its Artemis II mission as early as ...
NASA prepares to haul the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and mobile launcher back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs beginning Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, pending weather conditions. Credit: NASA / Keegan Barber After more than five ...
The largest and heaviest self-propelled ground vehicle on the planet, per Guinness, sits at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Creatively dubbed Crawler-Transporter 2, this monstrosity is the size of a baseball diamond, and while it's over 50 years ...