Spaceports, ranges and pads
Launch Complex 39B
The second Apollo era pad at Kennedy, retained by NASA and rebuilt as the clean pad for the Space Launch System and the Artemis missions [WLC39B][NASAKSC].
- Entity type
- launch complex
- Kind
- facility, site or pad
- Lane
- Spaceports, ranges and pads
- Place
- Kennedy Space Center, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1968
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1968 · 1968: NASA retains for program Launch Complex 39B (1968 onward)
- Role
- Artemis pad
- Cutoff status
- Operating
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating for NASA's Artemis program.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 3
- Betweenness
- 0.0221 on the full graph · 0.0075 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [NASA39B] [WLC39B] [NASAKSC]
Connections
Property, facility and development
- retains for program ←1968 onward
Industrial production and service
- flies from ←Apollo programApollo 10, the three Skylab crews and the Apollo Soyuz crew fly from Pad 39B [NASA39B]1969 to 1975
- launches from ←Lockheed Martin Orion operationsthe Orion spacecraft flies on the Space Launch System from the pad [NASAA2]2022 onward