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    Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) is the second of Launch Complex 39's three launch pads, located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida...
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    modified for the Space Shuttle program. Launch Complex 39 consists of three launch sub-complexes or "pads"—39A, 39B, and 39C—a Vehicle Assembly Building...
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    The pad, along with Launch Complex 39B, was first designed to accommodate the Saturn V launch vehicle. Typically used to launch NASA's crewed spaceflight...
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    central launch platform (mobile launcher platform), or the entire complex (launch complex). The entire complex will include a launch mount or launch platform...
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    launch. The mission was first rolled out in September 2008 to Launch Complex 39B two weeks after the STS-125 shuttle was rolled out to Launch Complex...
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    on the Moon. The flights will launch from the vehicle's dedicated pad at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B). The first three flights use...
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    2022. Artemis 1 was launched on November 16, 2022, at 06:47:44 UTC (01:47:44 EST). Artemis 1 was launched from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space...
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    Congressionally mandated late 2016 launch was delayed by nearly 6 years. All Space Launch System flights are launched from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center...
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    2017, SpaceX uses Launch Complex 39A to launch their launch vehicles. Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), operated by Space Launch Delta 45 of the...
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    STS-51-L (category Rocket launch failures)
    failure during its ascent phase 73 seconds after launch from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B on January 28, 1986, killed all seven crew members...
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    launch at 11:38 a.m. EST, with an air temperature of 36 °F (2 °C).: 17  At T+0, Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B)...
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    Artemis 2 (category Space Launch System)
    since Apollo 17 in 1972. Artemis 2 will be the first crewed launch from Launch Complex 39B of the Kennedy Space Center since STS-116 in 2006. Originally...
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    Ares I-X (category Rocket launches in 2009)
    October 28, 2009. The project cost was $445 million. It was the final launch from LC-39B until Artemis 1 13 years later. The Ares I-X vehicle used in the test...
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    SLS was rolled out to Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B for several attempts to launch, finally launching on 16 November 2022. SDV concepts were proposed...
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    Launch Complex 34 (LC-34) is a deactivated launch site on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. LC-34 and its companion LC-37 to the north were...
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    Flame deflector (category Rocket launch technologies)
    height and width of the octagonal shaped launch pad. During the Space Shuttle program NASA modified Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center. They installed...
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    launch vehicles to lift the Command/Service Module (CSM) and Lunar Module (LM) spacecraft into space, and the Little Joe II rocket to test a launch escape...
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    STS-33 (category Spacecraft launched in 1989)
    mission, specific details remain classified. Discovery lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, on November 22, 1989, at 7:23:30 p...
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    in which he served as the pilot. The mission was launched on December 2, 1993, from Launch Complex 39B at 09:27:00 UTC.: 2  The mission's primary objective...
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    STS-31 (category Spacecraft launched in 1990)
    Discovery (the tenth mission for this orbiter), which lifted off from Launch Complex 39B on April 24, 1990, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Following the...
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    104 launches per year, though actual usage is expected to be well below that. NASA had previously constructed LC-39C within the bounds of LC-39B with...
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    will launch on the Space Launch System from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B. Current plans call for some supporting hardware to be launched on other...
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    Exploration Ground Systems (category Space Launch System)
    assets: Vehicle Assembly Building Launch Control Center, Firing Rooms 1, 2, & 3 Crawler-transporter ML-1 and ML-2 Launch Pad 39B EGS was originally entitled...
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  • Complex 39 39A (1967—), leased by SpaceX since 2014 and modified to support its launch vehicles 39B (1969—), now reconfigured for NASA's Space Launch...
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    STS-87 (category Spacecraft launched in 1997)
    STS-87 was a Space Shuttle mission launched from Launch Complex 39B of the Kennedy Space Center on 19 November 1997. It was the 88th flight of the Space...
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    Shuttle Atlantis, piloted by Jett, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B January 12, 1997, 09:27 UTC The 10 day mission marked Jett's second...
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    specialist 1 on the crew of STS-37.: 63–64  Atlantis was launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B April 5, 1991, 14:22:45 UTC and returned to land...
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  • safely. CSM-119 was rolled out to Launch Complex 39B on Saturn IB SA-209 during the mission and prepared for a possible launch. Two astronauts, Brand (commander)...
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    STS-34 (category Spacecraft launched in 1989)
    Jupiter-bound Galileo probe was deployed into space. Atlantis lifted off from Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), at 12:53:40 EDT on October 18, 1989....
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    Apollo 10 (category Spacecraft launched in 1969)
    CSM was placed atop the launch vehicle on February 6, 1969. The completed space vehicle was rolled out to Launch Complex 39B on March 11, 1969—the fact...
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