F9 LC-39A launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center Feb. 19, the first launch from the historic pad since the final shuttle mission in 2011.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off for the first time from a launch site at KSC previously used by Apollo and shuttle missions Feb. 19, placing a Dragon cargo spacecraft into orbit.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...