LC-39A
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Overview
Launch Complex 39A, LC-39A, is a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Built in 1967 to support NASA’s Apollo Program, it has served as the primary launch site for all NASA human spaceflights for over five decades.
The pad was first used to launch Saturn V rockets. Then NASA used LC-39A for its Space Shuttle program. When the Space Shuttle was retired, NASA leased the pad out to SpaceX who began launching its Falcon 9 and Heavy rockets in 2017.
SpaceX has begun getting the pad ready to support Starship launches with a new launch tower and work on a launch mount underway. However, Starship will have to finish its development over at Starbase in South Texas before flights can take place at Kennedy Space Center.
