The space agency's Crawler Transporter 2 has officially broken the Guinness World Record for the heaviest self-powered vehicle.
for the first time in more than 50 years. After its glow-up, the vehicle put on some extra weight. It went from being a thickly built 5.95 million pounds to a record-breaking, super thicc vehicle at 6.65 million pounds—Photo“NASA’s crawlers were incredible pieces of machinery when they were designed and built in the 1960s,” John Giles, NASA’s Crawler Element Operations manager, said in the statement.
It takes about eight to 12 hours for the rocket-carrying vehicle to drive the 4.2 miles from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad, going at a slow and steady speed of one mile per hour . It could take you a shorter time to walk that distance by foot.for their inaugural launch during the Artemis 1 mission in November 2022.
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