Between 1964-66, the former Marion Power Shovel Company designed and built two crawler-transporters for NASA.

A piece of the NASA crawler that was built in Marion is outside the museum. A video shows how the crawler taking Artemis I to the launch pad operates. “It’s definitely amazing.

NASA’s giant crawler transporter that carried the Apollo missions and the Space Shuttles to the launch pad is getting an upgrade. In service since the mid-1960s, the 2,495 tonne (2,750 ton ...

Marion was a small community of about 2,000 people when inventor Edward Huber and his wife, Elizabeth, came to the city to build a revolutionary invention in 1865. The move accelerated ...

NASA has been using massive machines to transport rockets to the launch pads ever since the space program began. There are only two in operation.

W.O. Grubb Crane Rental, a leader in crane, rigging and heavy hauling in the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA, has added a fully remanufactured Manitowoc MLC300 VPC-Max to its crawler fleet. The lattice ...