Launch Control Center
Launch Control Center | |
LC-39 Launch Control Center | |
| Nearest city | Titusville, Florida |
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| Coordinates | 28°35′7″N 80°38′59″W / 28.58528°N 80.64972°W |
| Area | 12,047 m2 |
| Built | 1967 |
| MPS | John F. Kennedy Space Center MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 99001645 |
| Added to NRHP | January 21, 2000 |
The Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center (commonly known as just the Launch Control Center or LCC) is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, used to manage launches of launch vehicles from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39. Attached to the southeast corner of the Vehicle Assembly Building, the LCC contains offices; telemetry, tracking, and instrumentation equipment; and firing rooms.
LCC has conducted launches since the unmanned Apollo 4 (Apollo-Saturn 501) launch on November 9, 1967. LCC's first launch with a human crew was Apollo 8 on December 21, 1968. NASA's Space Shuttle program also used LCC. NASA has renovated the center for Space Launch System (SLS) missions, which began in 2022 with Artemis 1. In February 2022, the center was renamed after former director of launch operations Rocco A. Petrone.