Launch Complex 39A is the first of Launch Complex 39's three launch sub-complexes, located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. The main launch pad, along with Launch Complex 39B
The pad in January 2024 during the launch of Axiom Mission 3 with the SpaceX Starship launch tower in the background
KSC Director Bob Cabana (at podium) announces the signing of the pad 39A lease agreement on April 14, 2014. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (far left) and SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell stand nearby.
LC-39A in early 2026, with constructed SpaceX's facilities.
Falcon Heavy launching ViaSat-3 F3 from LC-39A in 2026.
Launch Complex 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
LC-39A (foreground) and LC-39B (background) on April 6, 2022
Complex Warning System – 1966
Apollo-Saturn 506 with Apollo 11 spacecraft being moved from the VAB to LC-39A (1969)
A restored crawler-transporter (2004)