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 ...
Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled ...
Before a rocket can blast off into space, it must travel 4.2 miles from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. That's where NASA's crawler-transporters come in.
Crawler Transporter -2 (CT-2) is tracking an August road trip down the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Crawlerway carrying the modified Mobile Launcher (ML) to Pad 39B. Testing towards this milestone ...
The Shuttle is on top of the Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) and is then moved by the Crawler Transporter (CT) to one of the two launch pads.