NASA announced its Crawler Transporter 2 is now officially in the Guinness World Records as the heaviest self-powered vehicle in the world. But there's a whole universe of big beefy vehicles right ...

With an eye towards the future, NASA commemorated the first 50 years of its two rocket-carrying crawler-transporters on Monday (Feb. 23) by taking one of the newly-upgraded massive machines out for a ...

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 ...

Driving trucks and construction equipment can be challenging. Driving the world’s largest vehicle? Even more so. NASA’s Crawler-Transporter II, the massive rocket hauler which weighs in at 6.6 million ...

How has NASA kept a vehicle 80 times larger than a fully-loaded tractor-trailer running since the Johnson administration? A stellar maintenance program. And lots of lubrication. Anyone who works on ...

It has taken seven years (or 57, depending on how you count), but now it is official: one of NASA's Apollo-era rocket movers is the heaviest self-powered vehicle in the world. Guinness World Records ...

Look at it as you will, but the reality is the Artemis lunar exploration program, humanity’s second such endeavor, is off to a bumpy start. Sure, you could argue Apollo’s journey was even bumpier, but ...

Locomotive engines revved and diesel fumes puffed from four exhaust pipes on Monday morning to signal that a NASA crawler-transporter was ready to roll into its next half-century. "We're moving," said ...

Marking 50 years of service, NASA's historic crawler-transporter 2 rolls out to Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B in Florida on Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. NASA/Cory Huston With an eye towards the ...