That's where NASA's crawler-transporters come in. They're the largest self-powered vehicles on the planet, and they're designed to transport rockets to the launchpad. We got an inside look at how ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Rockets can't just drive themselves to the launchpad — so NASA has two of the biggest vehicles ever built to get them there. Weighing in at 6 million pounds, the ...

Firefly Aerospace has secured a contract for a dedicated Alpha launch that will transport satellites for NASA’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts mission, which studies how and why tropical ...

Firefly Aerospace has secured a contract for a dedicated Alpha launch that will transport satellites for NASA’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts mission, which studies how and why tropical ...

NASA photos from the era show Carter ... touring the facility and learning about the "crawler," the massive vehicle used to transport rockets to the launch pad. The decision to support the Space ...