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 10, the Skylab manned missions, and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project were launched from pad 39B. Both LC-39 launch pads were heavily modified for the Space Shuttle Program.

Located on Merritt Island, Fla., just north of Cape Canaveral, the pads were originally built for the huge Apollo/Saturn V rockets that launched American astro-nauts on their historic journeys to the Moon …

This prime viewing location, adjacent to the Apollo/Saturn V Center, offers outdoor bleacher seating with views of launch pads across Banana Creek. If open during the launch window, the Apollo/Saturn V …

Launch Complex 39B was designed to handle launches of the Saturn V rocket, the largest and most powerful launch vehicle, which would propel Apollo spacecraft to the Moon.

It is covered with as much as 20 feet of dirt fill and concrete to shield it from the shock and heat of the launch. In this reinforced concrete room is the circuitry that links the Mobile Launcher, MSS, and …

Physical Description Apollo 11 Launch Pad. Concentrations of long, quick strokes radiate from the launch pad and gantry at the center of the scene. The crisscrossing lines of the structures contrast …

Apollo 11 astronauts Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, and Command Module Pilot (CMP) Michael Collins were on hand to watch their rocket make its slow...

Located on Merritt Island, Fla., just north of Cape Canaveral, the pads were originally built for the huge Apollo/Sat-urn V rockets that launched American astronauts on their historic journeys to the moon …

Had 59 Launches starting with the Saturn V launch on 18 May 1969 and ending with the Ares I-X on 28 October 2009. Operated by NASA from 1969 to present day.