Heavy weight champion of the world 🏆 The next time NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 carries the mobile launcher and #Artemis Moon rocket to and from the launch pad, the behemoth transporter will sport a Guinness World Records certificate officially designating it as “the heaviest self-powered vehicle.” At a March 29 ceremony at NASAKennedy Space Center in Florida, Guinness World Records presented the certificate to teams with the Exploration Ground Systems Program and Kennedy leadership. Originally designed to carry the Saturn V rockets during the Apollo program, the crawler underwent upgrades to enable it to carry the heavier load of the newer generation Moon rocket. These improvements added more weight, making this crawler heavier than its sibling, Crawler Transporter 1. Larger than a baseball infield and weighing in at approximately 6.65 million pounds (~3 million kgs), the Crawler Transporter 2’s weight is equivalent to about 15 Statues of Liberty or 1,000 pickup trucks. Following ...