NASA’s Crawler-transporter 2 moves toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, ...

Just moving out the moon-bound rocket to the launch pad was an incredible engineering feat. Watch how NASA got it done.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — It is an iconic machine whose work has spanned nearly the entire history of NASA. And without it, the Saturn V rocket and space shuttle launches would not have been possible.

The above image shows a crawler-transporter arriving at Launch Pad 39A to pick up a shuttle-era mobile launcher platform and move up and down a ramp to test how well the systems work while carrying a ...