#pad 39b

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KSC-20220321-PH-JBS01_0043 by NASA Kennedy Via Flickr: The sunrise casts a warm glow around the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 21, 2022. The SLS and Orion atop the mobile launcher were transported to the pad on crawler-transporter 2 for a prelaunch test called a wet dress rehearsal. Artemis I will be the first integrated test of the SLS and Orion spacecraft. In later missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky NASA image use policy.

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51-L Challenger Crew in White Room by NASA on The Commons Via Flickr: (January 8, 1986) Crew members of mission STS-51L stand in the White Room at Pad 39B following the end of the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT). From left to right they are: Teacher in Space Participant, Sharon "Christa" McAuliffe, Payload Specialist, Gregory Jarvis, Mission Specialist, Judy Resnik, Commander Dick Scobee Mission Specialist, Ronald McNair, Pilot, Michael Smith and Mission Specialist, Ellison Onizuka Image : 86PC-0056

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(13 May 1969) --- Aerial, high-angle, view of the Apollo 10 (Spacecraft 106/Lunar Module 4/Saturn 505) space vehicle at Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The crew of the Apollo 10 lunar orbit mission will be astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, commander; John W. Young, command module pilot; and Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot.

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Gene Cernan during egress training at Pad 39B prior to Apollo 10 in May of 1969.

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Skylab 3 stands at Pad 39B on July 27, 1973.

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Space Shuttle Endeavour heads into the sky at sunrise on 19 May 1996.

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Ice forms on equipment on Pad 39B, prior to Space Shuttle Challenger's ill fated STS-51-L mission. Top photo taken on 27 January 1986, the day before the launch.  Lower photo (108-KSC-386C-33-28) taken the morning of the launch.

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STS-51-L crew members pose during a break in countdown training in the White Room at Launch Pad 39B in November of 1985. From the left are Christa McAuliffe; Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Francis "Dick" Scobee, Ronald McNair, Mike Smith and Ellison Onizuka.