Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A

Launch Complex 39A
	The pad in January 2024 during the launch of Axiom Mission 3 with the SpaceX Starship launch tower in the background
Launch site	Kennedy Space Center
Location	Merritt Island, Florida
Coordinates	28°36′30.2″N 80°36′15.6″W / 28.608389°N 80.604333°W
Operator	NASA (1967-2014); SpaceX (2014-present);
Orbital inclination ; range	28–62°
Status
Launch history
Status	Active
Launches	176
First launch	November 9, 1967; Saturn V SA-501
Last launch	April 28, 2024; Falcon 9 Block 5 / Galileo-L12 (2 Satellites)
Associated; rockets	Saturn V; Space Shuttle; Ares V (cancelled); Falcon 9; Falcon Heavy; Starship (future);
	Launch Complex 39--Pad A
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	160 acres (65 ha)
Built	1964–1968
MPS	John F. Kennedy Space Center MPS
NRHP reference No.	99001638
Added to NRHP	January 21, 2000

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. The pad, along with Launch Complex 39B, was first designed to accommodate the Saturn V launch vehicle. Typically used to launch NASA's crewed spaceflight missions since the late 1960s, the pad was leased by SpaceX and has been modified to support their launch vehicles.^[2]^[3]

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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