Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 - Wikipedia
WEBA pad to be designated 39C, which would have been a copy of pads 39A and 39B, was originally planned for Apollo but never built. A smaller pad, also designated 39C, was constructed from January to June 2015, to accommodate small-lift launch vehicles. [9]
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A - Wikipedia
WEBThe pad, along with Launch Complex 39B, was first constructed in the 1960s to accommodate the Saturn V launch vehicle, and has been used to support NASA crewed space flight missions, including the historic Apollo 11 moon landing and the Space Shuttle.
List of Apollo missions - Wikipedia
WEBList of Apollo missions. Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon.
55 Years Ago: Tragedy on the Launch Pad - NASA
WEBOn Jan. 27, 1967, with the planned launch of the first Apollo mission to carry a crew just 25 days away, Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee were conducting a key test with their spacecraft on the launch pad. The test involved a mock countdown with the astronauts wearing spacesuits inside their ...
Launch Pad 39B - NASA
WEBSep 19, 2023 · Apollo 10 was the first mission to begin at Launch Pad 39B when it lifted off May 18, 1969, to rehearse the first moon landing. Three crews of astronauts launched to the Skylab space station in 1973 from Pad B.
50 Years Ago: Apollo 11 Rolls Out to the Launch Pad - NASA
WEBMay 20, 2019 · 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 trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
LAUNCH COMPLEX 39 FACT SHEET - Spaceline
WEBA flurry of activity followed, involving two launch pads, Launch Pad 39A to the south and Launch Pad 39B to the north. This activity culminated in the launch of Apollo 11 from Launch Pad 39A on July 16, 1969.
In Photos: NASA's Historic Launch Pad 39A, from Apollo to …
WEBFeb 17, 2017 · NASA's Most Historic Launchpad. 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...
WEBLocated 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 and back.
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