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 ...

In summer 2024, technicians from NASA and contractor Bechtel National, Inc. completed a milestone called jack and set, where the center's mega-mover, the crawler transporter, repositioned the ...

In the spring of 2022, the SLS was transported on the ML from the VAB to Launch Pad 39B (Figure 1) using the NASA crawler transporter (CT) to make this 4.2 mile trek, which takes ~8 hours.