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Launch Complex 39 Press Site
tourist highlight Launch Complex 39 Press Site · Kennedy Space Center, United States · 1968-01-01
The Launch Complex 39 Press Site is a news media facility at Launch Complex 39 at the John F.
The record
| Date | 1968-01-01 |
|---|---|
| Place | Launch Complex 39 Press Site, Kennedy Space Center, United States |
| Coordinates | 28.58249, -80.64511 (landmark-level precision) |
| Scope | Local interest |
| Sources | en.wikipedia · Wikidata Q6498394 |
| Added | 2026-08-21 · source: wikipedia-en |
Coordinates are given at landmark level. A landmark-level coordinate points at the structure; a city-level one points at the settlement, not at a parcel.
Finding photographs
Every one of these is a search, not a guess: the event is documented, so the pictures exist somewhere. Start here.
- Wikimedia Commons — freely licensed images, with the licence stated on every file. This is the only source we republish from.
- The reference article — its own illustrations, and its citations to archives.
- Image search filtered to reusable licences — useful for tracing which institution holds a picture.
- National and municipal archives of United States, and the picture desks of newspapers published there at the time.
Check the licence before you reuse anything. A photograph being online, or being old, does not make it free; in most countries a 1960s press photograph is still in copyright.
Footage
Newsreel and archive film of events like this often survives. Search YouTube for this event If you find good footage, send us the link and we will attach it to this page.
Time layers within the surrounding city
One place, several moments in time. This location has 11 recorded time layers between 1965 and 2019 — slide through them:
- 1965 — S-IC-T
- 1967 — Apollo 1
- 1968 — Launch Complex 39 Press Site this page
- 1969 — Apollo 11 lifts off
- 1969 — The Eagle Has Landed (statue)
- 1986 — Challenger
- 1987 — Space Mirror Memorial
- 1992 — Space Systems Processing Facility
- 2005 — Integrate-Transfer-Launch Complex
- 2012 — Swamp Works
- 2019 — KSC Headquarters Building
Harvested from a regional source. This entry came out of en.wikipedia rather than being written here, which is why it is short and why it is marked as needing a check. It is published as a lead for someone who knows the place: fill it in.
You can add to this page
This entry is a skeleton on purpose. If you were there, if your family was, or if you simply know the place: photographs (yours or ones you have the right to share), comments and corrections to the record above, and observations — what the place was like before, after, what the books get wrong. Everything is read by a person before publication and credited the way you ask.
What readers have added
Nothing yet — this place is waiting for its first memory. The form below takes a date, a story, photographs and links.
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Nearby in United States
- The Eagle Has Landed (statue) (1969)Kennedy Space Center
- S-IC-T (1965)Kennedy Space Center
- Space Systems Processing Facility (1992)Kennedy Space Center
- KSC Headquarters Building (2019)Kennedy Space Center
- Swamp Works (2012)Kennedy Space Center
- Apollo 11 lifts off (1969)Merritt Island, Florida