Launch Control Center

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.

This article is about the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center. For underground facilities used to launch ICBMs, see Missile launch control center. For other topics, see launch control (disambiguation).
Launch Control Center
LC-39 Launch Control Center
Nearest cityTitusville, Florida
Coordinates28°35′7″N 80°38′59″W
Area12,047 m2
Built1967
MPSJohn F. Kennedy Space Center MPS
NRHP reference No.99001645
Added to NRHPJanuary 21, 2000

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 launch director Rocco A. Petrone.

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