An curved arrow pointing right. Rockets can't just drive themselves to the launchpad — so NASA has two of the biggest vehicles ever built to get them there. Weighing in at 6 million pounds, the ...

Before a rocket can blast off into space, it must travel 4.2 miles from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. That's where NASA's crawler-transporters come in.

NASA’s Mobile Launcher-1 ... both of which supported the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs before taking on similar roles for Artemis. The crawler slowly made its way along the 4.2-mile ...

There is long process to get the Space Shuttle into ... and External Tank. The Shuttle is on top of the Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) and is then moved by the Crawler Transporter (CT) to one ...