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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has two of the largest vehicles ever built on treads. Crawler-transporter No. 1 and crawler-transporter No. 2 (CT-1 and CT-2) have carried rockets and spacecraft ...

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, ...

Inside NASA’s giant rocket garage — the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). This video covers the cranes, platforms, and crawler ...

Moving the Rocketdyne F-1 engine into the new Destination Moon gallery took an entire day. Suspending it from the ceiling took another 10 hours. The hardest part? A sharp left-hand turn out of the old ...

The first-ever rollouts of the Saturn V and SLS occurred 56 years apart. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "It was a sight unseen ...

The first moon landing will be displayed on screens nearby. Houston, we have a celebration. To honor the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...