The vehicle that transports rockets to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral has been refurbished.NASA's newly upgraded crawler-transporter, a giant vehicle as wide as a six-lane highway, took its first ...

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 ...

Launching into space the fastest machines ever built by man always starts with a very slow drive on the ground, on the backs of the only two vehicles in existence capable of transporting the rockets ...

NASA is continuing preparations for the testing and eventual launch of its “mega moon rocket,” or Space Launch System. This rocket is designed to eventually carry astronauts back to the moon under the ...

NASA’s giant crawler transporter that carried the Apollo missions and the Space Shuttles to the launch pad is getting an upgrade. In service since the mid-1960s, the 2,495 tonne (2,750 ton) vehicle is ...

Before a rocket or space shuttle could launch from the Kennedy Space Center, it had to be moved there, and for the last 50 years, NASA's crawler-transporters have done the job — steadily, but slowly.

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 ...

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.

Two veterans of the US space program have marked 50 years of service with in appropriately sedate style. In 1965, a pair of gigantic crawlers were built to move the Saturn V moon rockets to the launch ...

They call it the crawler. In a long-anticipated event, NASA will haul its new moon-bound megarocket to a Kennedy Space Center launchpad on March 17. It's a dress rehearsal for the real, fiery show, ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. NASA ...

'To have a Guinness Worlds Records title is icing on the cake for an extraordinary piece of equipment.' It has taken seven years (or 57, depending on how you count), but now it is official: one of ...