Heavy lift transporter specialist NBR Offshore Logistics has a new crawler mounted 350 tonne capacity model. The C400PL is a heavy transport unit with a flat load platform on top of a pair of crawler ...

The Crawler Transporter 2, the current iteration of the massive machine, comes as a series of independent tracks that ride underneath a platform larger than a baseball infield.

It's official: One of NASA's Apollo-era rocket movers is the heaviest self-powered vehicle. Guinness World Records confirmed Crawler-Transporter 2 tipped the scale.

Each crawler-transporter is massive — weighing 6 million pounds and measuring 131-by-114-feet; the height from ground level to the platform can adjust from 20-to-26 feet.

The Crawler-Transporter 2, with NASA's mobile launcher atop, makes its way up the ramp to the top of Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 31, 2018.

Guinness World Records designated NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 as the heaviest self-powered vehicle, weighing roughly 6.65 million pounds. At a March 29, 2023, ceremony at the agency's Kennedy ...

The crawler moves at a maximum speed of 2 mph (3.2 kph), but when it moved the SLS to the pad last time, it only reached 0.82 mph (1.32 kph) over a four-mile distance.

NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 was originally designed to carry Saturn V rockets during the Apollo program nearly 60 years ago. The aging giant recently got a much-needed upgrade for supporting ...

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NASA's historic crawler-transporter hardware has finally thrown around its weight enough – literally – to gain recognition in Guinness World Records.

This is a single tread of the enormous Crawler-Transporter used to transport the Saturn V rocket to its launch site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the Apollo program of the 1960s and ...

Heavy lift transporter specialist NBR Offshore Logistics has a new crawler mounted 350 tonne capacity model. The C400PL is a heavy transport unit with a flat load platform on top of a pair of crawler ...