Crawler-transporter - Wikipedia
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) …
The Crawlers - NASA
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 …
How do you move a big rocket like Artemis? Get a crawler-transporter
Feb 25, 2026 · Flag down the Crawler-Transporter 2, or CT-2, the slow-moving but mighty transport platform that’s been hauling rockets for NASA since 1965.
NASA's crawler continues the heavy lifting for Artemis II
1 day ago · NASA's Crawler-Transporter 2 has been in service for nearly the entire history of the American space program.
The NASA Crawler - Apollo11Space
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 …
Ready to roll again, NASA’s workhorse crawler has been hauling …
Mar 24, 2026 · NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, aka CT-2, at Kennedy Space Center on March 17, 2026. The crawler is 131 feet long and 114 feet wide, with a top speed of 2 mph. The CT-2 and its …
Crawler-Transporter | This Day in Aviation
May 20, 2025 · They were designed and built by Marion Power Shovel Company, Marion, Ohio, and were assembled on Merritt Island. (The Crawlerway connected the island to mainland Florida, so that …
The Crawler Transporter - The Engines of Our Ingenuity
Actually, each of those parallel roads carries one side of the world's largest land transport vehicle. It's a machine called a Crawler Transporter, originally created for NASA to carry an assembled Saturn …
Crawler-Transporter System
KSC has 2 crawler-transporters. Each vehicle consists of four double-tracked crawlers, each 3 meters (10 ft) high and 12 meters (41 ft) long. Each of the 8 tracks on a vehicle contains 57 shoes per track …
One of the two crawlers transports the as-sembled space shuttle, sitting atop the mobile launcher platform, from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pads 39A and 39B.