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Welcome to the Kennedy Space Center Public Affairs Information Series. Here you will find documents about space history, the space shuttle, launching rockets, processing and facilities at Kennedy. To view and print the PDF documents you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. For each fact sheet below, the title is on the left and the document number is on the right.

Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39 facilities including the Vehicle Assembly Building at right.

Premier Multi-user Spaceport

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An aerial view of the Central Campus Headquarters Building in the industrial area at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Central Campus Building

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In this aerial view, teams are moving the Space Launch System core stage into the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center following its arrival.

Spaceport Management and Integration

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A NASA railroad train moves past Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The NASA Railroad

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This is the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Press Site at KSC

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Image of a hurricane from the space station.

Hurricane and Tropical Storm Preparedness

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Commercial Crew Program

Seen here is the “Launch America” banner for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program on the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Commercial Crew Program

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The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmony module’s space-facing port on Nov. 8, 2021. The orbital complex was flying 263 miles above the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean when this photograph was taken.

Programa Comercial de Tripulación

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A two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida

Falcon 9/Crew Dragon Launch Weather Criteria

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Exploration Ground Systems Program

The mobile launcher for Artemis I begins rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building atop crawler-transporter 2 on Oct. 20, 2020.

Exploration Ground Systems

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The final of four solar array wings is shown being installed prior to receiving its protective covering on the Orion spacecraft.

Orion Facilities at Kennedy Space Center

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NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems conducts a water flow test with the mobile launcher at Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39B.

Mobile Launcher Tower Umbilicals and Launch Accessories

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NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B in Florida.

Launch Pad 39B

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An aerial view of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Vehicle Assembly Building

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Looking up at 10 levels of new work platforms in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center.

Vehicle Assembly Building High Bay 3 Work Platforms

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NASA's Landing and Recovery Team practices bringing a mock Orion capsule into the well deck of the USS Portland (LPD 27) ahead of the Artemis I Orion splashdown.

Orion Recovery Operations

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Technicians lift the right aft motor segment – one of five segments that make up one of two solid rocket boosters for the agency

Rotation, Processing, and Surge Facility (RPSF)

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workers receive training atop a mast climber that is attached to launch simulation towers outside the Launch Equipment Test Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Launch Equipment Test Facility (LETF)

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A wet flow test at Launch Pad 39B on September 13, 2019, tests the sound suppression system.

Mobile Launcher 1

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Concept image of NASA's SLS Block 1B launching.

Mobile Launcher 2

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NASA's crawler-transporter 2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Crawler-Transporters

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Members of the Artemis I launch team participate in a countdown simulation inside the Launch Control Center’s Firing Room 1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Launch Control Center

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Launch Services Program

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying the GOES-T satellite.

NASA's Launch Services Program

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A photograph of Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Hangar AE

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches on the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program 3 (STP-3) mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Atlas V Launch Weather Criteria

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Virgin Orbit teammates complete a dry run of the payload encapsulation process ahead of the company’s Launch Demo 2 mission.

ELaNa 20 Mission

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An aerial view of Launch Complex 48 - the newest launch complex at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Launch Complex 48

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ELaNa 36 Mission

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Research and Technology

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson poses with cabbage plants in the Vegetable Production System (Veggie) bellows in the Harmony Node 2.

Vegetable Production System (Veggie)

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The first growth test of crops in the Advanced Plant Habitat aboard the International Space Station.

Advanced Plant Habitat

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NASA astronaut and Crew-3 member Tom Marshburn looks at chiles growing inside of the Advanced Plant Habitat.

Plant Habitat-04

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Sustainability/Environmental

Sandhill cranes are photographed in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center.

Kennedy Space Center's Sustainability Initiatives

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Fact Sheet Archive

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America's Spaceport

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The Early Years

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An aerial view of teams bringing the Space Launch System core stage into the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center.

Kennedy Space Center Overview

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Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko with Earth in the background as he performs a spacewalk as part of the STS-106 mission on Sept. 11, 2000.

Living and Working on the New Frontier

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NASA Insignia

Commercial Crew Development Round 2

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A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, carrying the JPSS-1 satellite, stands ready for launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Delta II Launch Weather Criteria

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a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe lifts off from Kennedy Space Center.

Major NASA ELV Launches, Vol. 2 (Chart)

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A Lockheed Martin Athena I launch vehicle lifts off the launch pad at Kodiak Launch Complex with the Kodiak Star spacecraft on board.

Athena I – Kodiak Star Missions

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Chronology of Expendable Launch Vehicles Since 1990 Involving NASA

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A Saturn V rocket at liftoff

Major NASA ELV Launches (Chart)

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An aerial view of the Propellants North facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Propellants North Administrative and Maintenance Facility

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A photograph of low-speed electric vehicles at Kennedy Space Center.

KSC Energy Conservation Endeavors

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Bioengineer Tony Rector checks the ARMS reactor vessel inside a lab at Kennedy Space Center.

Aerobic Rotational Membrane Systems (ARMS)

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Space Shuttle Atlantis takes flight on its STS-27 mission.

Space Shuttle Era Fact Sheets

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Mediterranean Israel Dust Experiment (MEIDEX)

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Workers in the Multi-Purpose Processing Facility look over the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite.

Inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility

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International Space Station elements being processed for launch on upcoming Space Shuttle flights, including the U.S. Node 2, line the walls of the high bay in the Space Station Processing Facility.

Space Station Processing Facility

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