How do you move a big rocket like Artemis? NASA's crawler-transporter

Rockets like Artemis II are big and heavy. Here's how specialized crawler transporters safely move them from assembly bays to ...

NASA's aging crawler is about to haul 18 million pounds on its back, again

In March 2023, Guinness World Records designated that refurbished crawler, known as CT-2, as the heaviest self-powered ...
AOL

NASA's Artemis II Rocket Is Making A Slow And Steady Trek Before Take Off

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 ...

Artemis II moon rocket hauled off launch pad for repairs

Fixing the Space Launch System rocket's helium pressurization problem has pushed the Artemis II launch to at least April 1.
Jalopnik

These Are The Massive Diesel Engines That Move NASA's 6.6-Million-Pound Crawler-Transporter

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 ...
India Today on MSN

Nasa to remove Artemis-II Moon rocket from pad today, repairs to begin shortly

The massive stack will undertake a slow journey of approximately 6.4 kilometers, a trek expected to take up to 12 hours.
BGR

NASA's Artemis II Rocket Is Making A Slow And Steady Trek Before Take Off

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 February, NASA will spend the next month preparing to ...

These Are The Massive Diesel Engines That Move NASA's 6.6-Million-Pound Crawler-Transporter

To get its Artemis moongoing spacecraft to the launchpad, NASA uses a giant vehicle powered by huge diesel engines that originally had a very different mission.