Launch Sites in United States

The Cape opened with a captured V-2 called Bumper 8 in 1950 and flew the Mercury missions. Today dozens of pads host Falcon 9, Atl...

The home of Apollo. Saturn V moonshots left Pad 39A from 1967, the shuttle fleet flew 30 years, and SpaceX now leases 39A for Falc...

The West Coast polar launch base, first to orbit a satellite over the poles with Discoverer 1 in 1959. Rockets fly south over the ...

One of the oldest rocket ranges on Earth, established for aeronautical research in 1945. Antares cargo rockets flew to the space s...

The cradle of American rocketry. Captured V-2 missiles flew from 1946, and in 1949 a Bumper V-2 stack reached almost 400 kilometer...

The SpaceX build and launch complex at Boca Chica, Texas, where Starship prototypes are welded in giant rings, tested, and flown. ...

A commercial launch site on Narrow Cape, Kodiak Island, suited to polar and sun synchronous orbits. Its first orbital launch in 20...

The first facility licensed for horizontal takeoff spaceflight. SpaceShipOne won the Ansari X Prize here in 2004 as the first priv...

The private West Texas launch site of Blue Origin, bought by Jeff Bezos in the early 2000s. New Shepard made its first flight in 2...

The first purpose built commercial spaceport in the world, a striking terminal beside a mountain runway. Virgin Galactic flew its ...

Built for the Saturn V, Pad 39A launched Apollo 11 and most of the Apollo Moon missions, then the first Space Shuttle flight in 19...

The sister pad to 39A first launched Apollo 10 in 1969, then the three Skylab crews and the Apollo Soyuz flight on Saturn IB rocke...

Originally built for the Titan III, SLC-40 sent Mars Observer and the Cassini probe on their way before the Titan family retired. ...

Built beside SLC-40 for the Titan III, SLC-41 launched the Viking landers to Mars and both Voyager probes in the 1970s. Rebuilt fo...

A Saturn I and Saturn IB pad remembered for tragedy and recovery. On 27 January 1967 a cabin fire during a ground test killed the ...

The Atlas pad where John Glenn rode Friendship 7 into orbit in February 1962, followed by the other crewed Mercury Atlas flights. ...

A Redstone and Jupiter missile pad at the Cape that launched Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7 in May 1961, the first American human s...

Explorer 1, the first American satellite, rose from Pad 26A on a Juno I rocket on 31 January 1958, answering Sputnik. The complex ...

Built for the Titan I missile, LC-19 launched all ten crewed Gemini missions in 1965 and 1966 on Titan II rockets, plus the two un...

Built for the Saturn I, LC-37 launched Saturn I and IB rockets including Apollo 5, the first uncrewed test of the Lunar Module in ...

Atlas Centaur rockets flew from LC-36 for decades, launching the Surveyor Moon landers and Pioneer 10 toward Jupiter. After its ol...

Home of the Delta rocket for half a century, LC-17 launched Thor missiles and then Delta rockets carrying probes and satellites, i...

Built for Trident II submarine missile tests, LC-46 was converted into a launch site operated by Space Florida. An Athena II rocke...

Built for Atlas Agena and Titan rockets carrying reconnaissance satellites, SLC-4 East later launched the Titan IV until 2005. Spa...

Nicknamed Slick Six, the pad was built for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, canceled in 1969, then rebuilt to send the Space Shuttl...

Built as a Thor missile pad in the late 1950s, SLC-2 became the West Coast home of the Delta rocket family, launching weather, Ear...

Originally built for Atlas Agena launches of early reconnaissance satellites, SLC-3 East was rebuilt for the Atlas V, which first ...

A Thor missile site converted to launch Thor based rockets carrying weather and military satellites. SLC-10 is a National Historic...

The commercial spaceport within Wallops Flight Facility on the Virginia coast. Its Pad 0A has launched the Antares rocket carrying...

A rocket range north of Fairbanks, Alaska, owned by the University of Alaska and used since 1969 to launch sounding rockets into t...

The California desert flight test center where the X-15 rocket plane landed after flights to the edge of space in the 1960s and wh...

The 4.6 kilometer runway at Kennedy Space Center built for returning Space Shuttles, which first landed there in 1984 and made the...

A remote Pacific atoll used for high altitude nuclear tests launched by rocket. Redstone missiles carried warheads in 1958 and Tho...

An off range launch site in Utah from which Athena test rockets were fired several hundred kilometers south into White Sands Missi...

The launch complex at White Sands where the US Army fired captured German V-2 rockets from 1946, including the October 1946 flight...

The farm field in Auburn, Massachusetts, where Robert Goddard launched the first liquid fueled rocket on 16 March 1926. The flight...

The Electron launch pad of Rocket Lab within the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia. Its first orbital la...

The SpaceX rocket development and test facility in McGregor, Texas, where Merlin and Raptor engines are test fired. The Grasshoppe...

The first launch site at Cape Canaveral. On 24 July 1950 a Bumper rocket, a captured V-2 topped with a WAC Corporal, lifted off fr...

A gypsum runway complex in the New Mexico desert used for Space Shuttle pilot training in modified Gulfstream jets and as a backup...