After more than five weeks of sitting on its Florida launchpad, the Artemis II rocket will head back to its hangar for some unanticipated repairs, without having launched to the moon. As long as the weather holds up, NASA is targeting 9 a.m. on Wednesday, ## Feb. 25 , 2026, for the move to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Four miles may seem like a short trip, but when billions of dollars' worth of hardware are at stake, every inch can feel like an eternity. At the center of the rollback is the U.S. space agency's crawler-transporter, a tank-like vehicle the size of a baseball infield that will carry the 322-foot Space Launch System**, **the Orion spaceship, and the mobile launcher. The crawler, built in 1965, has made the journey many times, hauling Space Shuttles and Apollo's Saturn V rockets, traversing over 2,500 miles.…