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These Are The Massive Diesel Engines That Move NASA's 6.6-Million-Pound Crawler-Transporter

The largest and heaviest self-propelled ground vehicle on the planet, per Guinness, sits at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Creatively dubbed Crawler-Transporter 2, this monstrosity is ...
Space Coast Daily

NASA Adds Mission to Artemis Lunar Program, Updates Architecture

As part of a Golden Age of exploration and discovery, NASA announced Friday the agency is increasing its cadence of missions under the Artemis program to achieve the national objective of returning ...
AOL

NASA's Artemis II Rocket Is Making A Slow And Steady Trek Before Take Off

The Space Launch System rocket and Orion Spacecraft roll out on the CT-2 during the Artemis I mission. - NASA NASA is getting ready to send astronauts beyond Earth's orbit for the first time in ...
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NASA sets first crewed moon mission in 54 years as 322-foot rocket reaches pad

On January 17, 2026, at 6:42 p.m. EST, NASA's Space Launch System arrived at Pad 39B after a deliberate 12-hour journey across Kennedy Space Center. The 322-foot rocket, moving at less than one mile ...

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

In March 2023, Guinness World Records designated that refurbished crawler, known as CT-2, as the heaviest self-powered vehicle. The crawler itself weighs 6.6 million pounds, about the same as 1,000 ...
Hackaday

NASA Seeks Volunteers To Track Artemis II Mission

As NASA’s Artemis program trundles onwards at the blazing pace of a disused and very rusty crawler-transporter, the next mission on the list is gradually coming into focus. This will be the ...