NASA’s Artemis II mission relies on the 1960s-built Crawler-Transporter 2 to move the rocket and mobile launcher safely 4.2 miles from assembly to launch pad at Kennedy Space Center.

Casey Handmer wrote some stuff on this a few years back. He reckoned it might be cheaper to actually build a launch system that can handle the bigger modules, than to persist with the current system.

Preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Dedication; Prologue; 1: An Alternative Plan; Shuffling the Shuttle to Assemble the Station; NASA's Tier-2: An Alternative Assembly Plan; The Interim Control ...

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While a rotating station would make it easier to walk around, use a toilet or shower like a normal person, it would be extreme difficult to work outside of it, as the centrifugal forces would tend to ...