NASA Launch Pad 39A Reignites in Preparation for SpaceX Launch

NASA’s Launch Pad 39A was reignited by static fire during a pre-flight test on Sunday in preparation for a Feb. 18 launch of SpaceX Falcon 9. Built in the 1960s, the historic Launch Pad 39A is the same at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida was used to launch such historic missions as Apollo 11, the first moon landing in 1969, according to Collect Space . “First static fire test of Falcon 9 at historic launch complex 39A completed in advance of Dragon’s upcoming mission to the space station,” SpaceX wrote on Twitter.