Launchpad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida sent the first astronauts to the moon, supported dozens of space shuttle missions, and now serves as a commercial launch site. Here are some ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 sits on Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A. (NASA via YouTube) SpaceX postponed the first launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center since the last shuttle flight in 2011 ...

NASA's Apollo and shuttle era launch pad, Complex 39A, is now under the control of SpaceX, the company led by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. What it means. Skip to main content.

Launch Pad 39A, which supported 92 launches since November 1967 — 12 Saturn V rockets and 80 shuttles — was initially set to support the new Space Launch System.

But in 2014, SpaceX signed a 20-year lease with NASA to use the launchpad at 39A and refurbish it so that the site could support launches of the company’s Falcon 9 and the future Falcon Heavy.

SpaceX signs a 20-year agreement to take over NASA's historic Launch Pad 39A, the point of origin for Apollo moon missions and space shuttle flights. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal ...

So while headed toward retirement, the 14-story booster does have important jobs left to do. First, it will help show that SpaceX’s renovations to KSC’s historic pad 39A, which the company has ...

NASA has agreed to work with SpaceX on lease terms for Launch Pad 39A at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the home of the Apollo missions. Launch Complex 39A has been inactive since 2011, but was used for ...