Real Launch Pads, Launch Gear and Assembly locales, Launch times

Pictures:
• Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A:
  • Pad 39A, which was used for Shuttle and Apollo missions
  • Pad 39A from the crawlerway
  • The gantry, etc for the shuttle
  • The shuttle white room where the astronauts got their last checks before boarding the orbiter
  • From the flame trench under the Pad39A, where the flames from those big rockets went.
  • In the flame trench Shuttle and Apollo engines melted the bricks
  • Shuttle Astronauts had a long zip down to escape the pad if need be...
  • ...at the end of the ziplines, a bunker or APC awaited the astronauts.
  • That Saturn V got REALLY hot and melted some of this flame diverter
• Kennedy Space Center Pad 39B:
  • Pad 39B from the way to the Beach
• Kennedy Space Center launch gear and VAB:
  • Shuttle Launch Platform
  • SLS Launch Gantry and Umbilicals awaiting the new NASA SLS
  • Sizing Mockup of the SLS top Capsule and Escape from KSC VAB
  • Inside the VAB looking at the ceiling
  • Inside the VAB looking out the big windows
  • Firing Room Building for Pads 39A and B

Launch Times and Places:
• GO HERE FIRST: NASA's consolodated Launch Schedule includes all NASA missions from many facilities US and worldwide
• ESA: ESA's Launch Schedule from Guiana
• SpaceX: Launch Manifest
• New Mexico Spaceport: Look around here
• Patrick AFB Launches: Next Launch only the next launch, see down page
• Vandenberg AFB Launches: You have to look really hard or call the number posted

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