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A technician watches the motion of the giant tracks on NASA’s upgraded crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) as the giant vehicle travels along the crawlerway toward the Vehicle Assembly Building from its trek to Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. CT-2 was drive to Pad 39B to test recently completed upgrades and modifications to support NASA’s journey to Mars. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy oversaw upgrades to the crawler in the VAB. The crawler will carry the mobile launcher with Orion atop the Space Launch System rocket to Pad 39B for Exploration Mission 1.