NASA / Kim Shiflett
IMAGES OF THE DAY... Launch Complex 39B: Past and Present. Pad B saw its first launch with Apollo 10 heading to the Moon on May 18, 1969, and its final launch with the Ares I-X test flight on October 28, 2009. 53 space shuttle missions began from the historic pad between those two flights over the last three decades. The Fixed Service Structure and Rotating Service Structure are now gone from the elevated pad surface of 39B...with NASA leaving the complex ready for the next rocket that will soar into Earth orbit and beyond from the site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Whether that rocket will be commercially-made or NASA’s replacement for the shuttle remains to be seen.
NASA / Kim Shiflett
NASA / Kim Shiflett
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