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Nasa's Artemis II rocket begins slow crawl to launchpad

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NASA's mega-crawler to move Artemis II moon rocket to launch pad in Florida

NASA's Crawler-Transporter 2 is tasked with moving the Artemis II rocket for the upcoming moon mission.

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Pictures: Behind the scenes of NASA crawler that gets Artemis to the launch pad

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Nasa's Artemis Moon rocket rolls back to pad for possible April launch

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NASA Hauls Its Repaired Moon Rocket From the Hangar Back to the Pad for an Early April Launch

For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes of launching four astronauts on a lunar fly-around next month.

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NASA moves Artemis 2 rocket back to launch pad ahead of moon mission

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Nasa returns moon rocket to pad and targets 1 April launch

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Nasa readies Artemis rocket for launch ahead of first Moon mission in 50 years

Artemis II will send Nasa astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on an approximately 10-day mission around the Moon...

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NASA's Artemis II SLS rocket rolls out to KSC pad ahead of moon mission

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NASA's Artemis II rocket rolls to launch pad in final bid to meet April deadline

Ready to roll again, NASA’s workhorse crawler has been hauling rockets since Apollo

When he’s not at work, Sam Dove drives a Chevy Silverado 1500. Dove gets to drive the crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2), which was one of two tracked vehicles originally designed to haul the Saturn V

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Why Artemis II relies on a 1960s-built vehicle to reach the launch pad

NASA’s Artemis II mission relies on the 1960s-built Crawler-Transporter 2 to move the rocket and mobile launcher safely 4.2 miles from assembly to launch pad at Kennedy Space Center.

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NASA's aging crawler is about to haul 18 million pounds on its back, again

NASA prepares to haul the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and mobile launcher back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs beginning Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, pending weather conditions. Credit: NASA / Keegan Barber After more than five ...

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NASA sets Guinness World Record for vehicle that carried Artemis moon rocket to launch pad

The Guinness World Records is spotlighting an underappreciated piece of NASA hardware. Crawler Transporter 2 is now recognized as “the heaviest self-powered vehicle.” The transporter sits beneath NASA’s Artemis moon rocket and spacecraft and slowly ...

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NASA's crawler playing key role in Artemis Program

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — It is an iconic machine whose work has spanned nearly the entire history of NASA. And without it, the Saturn V rocket and space shuttle launches would not have been possible. “We are going to the moon. We are going to Mars.

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NASA’s Massive Rocket Transporter Is Officially a Record-Breaking Big Boy

The space agency's Crawler Transporter 2 has officially broken the Guinness World Record for the heaviest self-powered vehicle. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 was originally designed to carry Saturn V rockets during the Apollo ...

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NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 Is Officially the World’s Heaviest Self-Powered Vehicle

The high-speed journeys our space rockets take to wherever they’re going always begin with a very slow crawl from the place where they are assembled to the launch pad. For NASA rockets, the last trip they take on this Earth is done with the help of ...

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Guinness names NASA’s crawler-transporter the heaviest self-propelled vehicle

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA's crawler-transporter II is now the Guinness World Record holder for the heaviest self-propelled vehicle on the planet. "Congratulations to the entire crawler team, and the crawler, you are all officially amazing," said Hannah ...

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How do you move a big rocket like Artemis? NASA's crawler-transporter

How do you safely move a 5.75 million-pound, 322-foot-high rocket more than 4 miles from the assembly building to the launch pad and back? Flag down the Crawler-Transporter 2, or CT-2, the slow-moving but mighty transport platform that’s been hauling ...