LC-39

Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 (LC-39)

On the 14^th of April 2014 SpaceX signed a 20-year lease for Launch Pad 39A

The first SpaceX launch from pad 39A was SpaceX CRS-10 using a Falcon 9 on February 19, 2017

SpaceX refurbished LC-39 with a new Transport/Erector/Launcher(TEL) for the maiden flight of Falcon Heavy rocket(FH) on 6 Feb 2018.

Followed by a crew access arm in "2018" ready for the first manned Dragon 2 missions.

SpaceX also plan to build a Operations Area, the facilities would be located on 67 acres of fallow agricultural land west of State Road 3 on Roberts Road and A Avenue, between the VAB and KSC’s Industrial Area to the south a 32,000-square-foot tower standing up to 300 feet tall would include a data center; firing room; engineering room; control center for Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Dragon vehicles; customer control center; and meeting spaces.

History

Since the late 1960s, Pads A and B at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39 have served as backdrops for America’s

most significant manned space flight endeavors — Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz

and Space Shuttle.

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 astronauts on their historic journeys to the Moon and back.

39A construction