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Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. The site and its collection of facilities were originally built as the Apollo program's "Moonport" and later modified for the Space Shuttle program.
Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) is the first of Launch Complex 39's three launch pads, located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.
May 4, 2022 · View a rocket launch from just 2.3 miles away. Praised by our own Daryl Sausse’ as “better than press,” the LC-39A Observation Gantry sits along NASA’s Crawler Way between SpaceX’s LC-39A and the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Launch Complex 39 was constructed in support of Saturn V rocket preparations and launches. A brief history of the complex is included below. The site remained largely intact through the Skylab and ASTP programs, for which a large metal pedestal was erected at Launch Pad 39B.
LC-39 Observation Gantry Available in addition to daily admission, the LC-39 Observation Gantry is the closest viewing area to the launch pads on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Witness liftoff of the rocket from the launch pad.
May 22, 2020 · Space history curator Michael Neufeld explores the history of Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39, which has seen launches of the Apollo program and Space Shuttle, and will see the return of crewed launches from American soil in May 2020.
Aug 15, 2021 · The first mission to use Launch Complex 39 was Apollo 4. Launched from LC-39A on November 9, 1967 at 12:00:01 UTC, the first full test flight of the Saturn V lifted into space. A second test...
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