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 ...

The moon race was won with rockets a dozen times faster than a bullet. But before liftoff, Apollo spacecraft took a ride slower than a lazy stroll. They were carried to the launch pad by a legendary ...

The first test flight for NASA's next-generation rocket rumbled closer when the Ares I-X rocket took a ride to its launch spot aboard a massive Apollo-era crawler Tuesday morning. It reached 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, ...

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 ...

The historic steel platform from which the first astronauts departed Earth to fly around and land on the moon now, itself, only has a limited time left on the planet. Mobile Launch Platform-3 (MLP-3), ...

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 ...

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 Space ...

'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 ...