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some of humanity's greatest adventures

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began here at launch complex 39a at

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NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida

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astronauts lifted off from this pad six

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times between 1969 and 1972 to walk upon

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the lunar soil riding Saturn five

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Rockets the astronauts left Florida and

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the earth behind for two weeks while

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they ventured to the moon in 1981 paté

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began hosting the world's first reusable

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spacecraft nasa's space shuttles on

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missions that would make working in

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space more commonplace while still

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achieving breathtaking science and

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accomplishing engineering feats that

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would have been out of reach before the

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launch complex hosted shuttle missions

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for 30 years including the first and

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the Space Shuttle America will continue

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Houston now controlling the flight of

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Atlantis since that final shuttle

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mission SpaceX overhauled the pad

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extensively and refurbished storage

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tanks and other equipment there the

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company also built a hangar at the base

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of the pad pyramid to handle processing

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of the Rockets although the

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modifications were wide-ranging the

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changes to the pad were slight compared

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to the work that went into constructing

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the facility in the 1960s NASA built a

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pair of launch complexes suitable for

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the needs of the world's first moon

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rocket the Saturn 5 and it's Apollo

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spacecraft when it lifts off from pate

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to deliver supplies to the space station

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the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will bring a

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new dawn for the venerated launch

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complex this will be the first mission

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not operated by NASA to fly from launch

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complex 39a as SpaceX takes the reigns

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for the first time since at least the

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pad from the space agency future

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missions include launching commercial

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spacecraft eventually astronauts are to

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launch from the pad again to the great

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American gateway to space stands ready

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again to make history each mission is

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expected to set a new brick in the