In 2005, its precious cargo was space shuttle Discovery; for its last trip at the end of May, the crawler will transport space shuttle Atlantis to its final launch.

NASA’s two crawler transporter vehicles soon will sport new “shoes.” A $10 million project to replace the 456 tread belt shoes, weighing more than one ton each, on both crawlers at Kennedy ...

They carry acomplement 25 engineers and technicians under full operations and weigh up to18 million pounds when capped with a shuttle launch stack and launch platform.

What gas guzzler travels 0.8 mph, gets 32 feet to the gallon and carries the pride of America on its back? Meet the crew of "the crawler" — an enormous beast of a machine that will carry the ...

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 crawler-transporters have been ...

Perhaps the most bizarre is a small Moon rock from Apollo 11 that also was aboard the final space shuttle flight in 2011. It will also fly an Apollo 8 commemorative medallion, a bolt from the ...

“Soon, the 6.6-million-pound crawler will go inside the VAB and slide under the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft placed on the Mobile Launcher.

Meet the crew of "the crawler" — an enormous beast of a machine that will carry the space shuttle to its launchpad Tuesday night for the very last time. Search Query Show Search.