

Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, USA. The site and its collection of facilities were originally built for the Apollo program, and was later modified for the Space Shuttle program, before currently undergoing modifications to support launches of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy and the Space Launch System. Launch Complex 39 is composed of the two launch pads—39A and 39B—the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), the Crawlerway (the route used by crawler-transporters to carry Mobile Launcher Platforms between the VAB and the pads), the…