While the crew of Apollo 9 was still orbiting Earth on this day in 1969, preparations were already underway on the ground for the next critical step in the race to the Moon.

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, carrying the agency's Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft, ...

NASA's crawler-transporter carries the Space Launch System, Artemis II's mega moon rocket, and the mobile launcher to a Kennedy Space Center launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 17, 2026. - ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 27, 2018 ” Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has helped transport a modified mobile launcher between the vehicle assembly facility and launch pad 39B at Kennedy Space ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In March 2023, Guinness World Records designated that refurbished crawler, known as CT-2, as the heaviest self-powered ...

NASA is getting ready to send astronauts beyond Earth's orbit for the first time in decades. On track to launch its Artemis II mission as early as February, NASA will spend the next month preparing to ...