Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — When he's not at work, Sam Dove drives a Chevy Silverado 1500. But on the job, he gets behind the wheel of ...

Before a NASA rocket can blast into space, it first has to make an incredibly slow journey aboard one of the agency’s enormous crawler-transporters. Weighing roughly 2,700 tons each, these machines ...

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.

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2), is one of two vehicles originally designed to haul the Saturn V rockets from Apollo era to Kennedy Space Center’s launch pads. It continued its piggyback service ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Its work is done — NASA’s Crawler-Transporter 2 has given Artemis II a ride to the launchpad. Built in 1965, it is an iconic machine whose work has spanned nearly the entire ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — When he's not at work, Sam Dove drives a Chevy Silverado 1500. But on the job, he gets behind the wheel of a 16-million-pound behemoth that's been transporting NASA's rockets ...