NASA KSC Launch Pad 39B Deconstruction Time-lapse Video

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A time-lapse video of the deconstruction of Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The fixed service structure and rotating service structure were removed. Both structures were built to support space shuttle launches.

NASA deactivated LC-39B on January 1, 2007, thus making the nighttime launch of STS-116, which occurred on December 9, 2006 its last shuttle mission.

Between the STS-116 launch and the STS-125 mission, when the Endeavour was placed on LC-39B in the event NASA needed to launch the STS-400 rescue mission, contractors installed three new 600 ft. tall lightning mast towers similar to those used on the Atlas V and Delta IV launch pads at nearby Cape Canaveral. At the same time they removed the existing single lightning mast and crane assembly. (The crane assembly dated back to the Apollo program.) With the completion of STS-125, contractors converted LC-39B for the successful test flight of Ares I-X on October 28, 2009.

Since the Ares I-X flight, NASA is proceeding with plans to strip LC-39B of its FSS, returning the location to an Apollo-like "clean pad" design for the first time since 1977. This approach will make the pad available to multiple types of vehicles which arrive at the pad with service structures on the mobile launcher platform as opposed to custom structures on the pad. The LH2, LOX, and water tanks (used for the sound suppression system) are the only structures left from the Shuttle era.As of February 2011, NASA is offering the pad and facilities to private companies to fly missions for the commercial space market

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