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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 ...
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.
SpaceX postponed the first launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center since the last shuttle flight in 2011, due to a potential glitch in its Falcon 9 rocket.
The historic all-civilian Inspiration4 crew arrived at Launchpad 39A in style ahead of Wednesday's SpaceX launch.
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.
The historic NASA launch pad from where astronauts blasted off for the moon and space shuttles departed for Earth orbit is now in need of a new rocket to launch.
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.
While the launch is still a week away, the Falcon 9 has gone vertical at 39A in preparation for a static fire, a test in which the rocket’s engines are turned on while the vehicle is constrained.
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 ...
SpaceX will be modifying pad 39A with the goal of launching its first Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy early next year, though Shotwell says that it will preserve the pad’s “historic elements ...
Preparing for its next launch, Space Shuttle Discovery arrived at Launch Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center on February 1. This photograph shows the sun beginning to rise in the east as ...
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 ...