Launch Complex 39B
1969 to present
Site Details
- Country: United States
- Operator: NASA
- Type: Government
Overview
The sister pad to 39A first launched Apollo 10 in 1969, then the three Skylab crews and the Apollo Soyuz flight on Saturn IB rockets. It flew Space Shuttle missions including the doomed Challenger launch in 1986, and was rebuilt as a clean pad for the Space Launch System, which sent Artemis I around the Moon in 2022.
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