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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing , at nearby Patrick Air Force Base; located on Cape Canaveral in the State of Florida, CCAFS is the primary Launch Head of the Eastern Range....
 Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) is a launch pad
List of Merritt Island launch sites

Merritt Island, Florida, off the eastern coast of Florida, is home to two spaceports, servicing several launch sites for rockets....
 at Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral, from the Spanish language Cabo Ca?averal, is a headlands and bays in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of that state's Atlantic Ocean coast 45 minutes East of Orlando by car....
, Florida
Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
. The site was used by the United States Air Force
United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Military of the United States and one of the uniformed services of the United States....
, for Titan III
Titan III

The Titan IIIC was a space booster used by the United States Air Force. It was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL., and Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA....
 and Titan IV
Titan IV

The Titan IV family of space boosters were used by the U.S. Air Force. They were rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California....
 launches. On April 25, 2007, the US Air Force leased the complex to SpaceX
SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation is an American space transportation startup company founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. It is developing partially reusable rocket launchs - the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 - and the SpaceX Dragon series of space capsules....
 to launch the SpaceX Falcon 9
Falcon 9

The Falcon 9 is a reusable launch vehicle planned by SpaceX and scheduled to launch in 2009. Several variants are proposed with payloads of between 9,900 kg and 27,500 kg to low Earth orbit , and between 4,900 kg and 12,000 kg to geostationary transfer orbit....
 rocket.

first launch from LC-40 was the maiden flight of the Titan IIIC, carrying two transtage
Transtage

Transtage was an United States upper stage used on Titan III rockets. 40 were launched, of which three failed.The first launch, boosted by a Titan III carrier rocket, occurred on 1 September 1964....
 upper stages to test the functionality of the vehicle.

Two interplanetary missions were launched from the pad.






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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is a detachment of the 45th Space Wing , at nearby Patrick Air Force Base; located on Cape Canaveral in the State of Florida, CCAFS is the primary Launch Head of the Eastern Range....
 Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) is a launch pad
List of Merritt Island launch sites

Merritt Island, Florida, off the eastern coast of Florida, is home to two spaceports, servicing several launch sites for rockets....
 at Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral, from the Spanish language Cabo Ca?averal, is a headlands and bays in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of that state's Atlantic Ocean coast 45 minutes East of Orlando by car....
, Florida
Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
. The site was used by the United States Air Force
United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Military of the United States and one of the uniformed services of the United States....
, for Titan III
Titan III

The Titan IIIC was a space booster used by the United States Air Force. It was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL., and Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA....
 and Titan IV
Titan IV

The Titan IV family of space boosters were used by the U.S. Air Force. They were rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California....
 launches. On April 25, 2007, the US Air Force leased the complex to SpaceX
SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation is an American space transportation startup company founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. It is developing partially reusable rocket launchs - the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 - and the SpaceX Dragon series of space capsules....
 to launch the SpaceX Falcon 9
Falcon 9

The Falcon 9 is a reusable launch vehicle planned by SpaceX and scheduled to launch in 2009. Several variants are proposed with payloads of between 9,900 kg and 27,500 kg to low Earth orbit , and between 4,900 kg and 12,000 kg to geostationary transfer orbit....
 rocket.

Titan

The first launch from LC-40 was the maiden flight of the Titan IIIC, carrying two transtage
Transtage

Transtage was an United States upper stage used on Titan III rockets. 40 were launched, of which three failed.The first launch, boosted by a Titan III carrier rocket, occurred on 1 September 1964....
 upper stages to test the functionality of the vehicle.

Two interplanetary missions were launched from the pad. On September 25 1992, it was the launch site for the failed Mars Observer
Mars Observer

Mars Observer was an unmanned spacecraft designed to study the geoscience and climate of Mars . The first of the Planetary Observer program of planetary missions, it was launched by NASA on September 25, 1992....
 spacecraft, and on October 15 1997, it was used to launch the Cassini-Huygens
Cassini-Huygens

Cassini?Huygens is a joint NASA/European Space Agency robotic spacecraft mission currently studying the planet Saturn and Saturn's natural satellites....
 mission to Saturn
Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn, along with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant....
.

The most recent use of the pad was on April 30, 2005, when a Titan IVB launched the Lacrosse-5
Lacrosse (satellite)

Lacrosse and Onyx are the code names for the United States' National Reconnaissance Office terrestrial radar imaging reconnaissance satellite....
 reconnaissance satellite.

The tower was disassembled during late 2007 and early 2008. Demolition of the Mobile Service Structure (MSS), by means of a controlled explosion
Demolition

Demolition is the antonym of construction: the tearing-down of buildings and other structures. It contrasts with deconstruction , which is the taking down of a building while carefully preserving valuable elements for re-use....
, occurred on 27 April 2008.

SpaceX

In April 2007, SpaceX was granted a lease to use LC-40. After demolition of the Mobile Service structure on 27 April 2008, construction was started on ground facilties necessary to support launch of the SpaceX
SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation is an American space transportation startup company founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. It is developing partially reusable rocket launchs - the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 - and the SpaceX Dragon series of space capsules....
 Falcon 9
Falcon 9

The Falcon 9 is a reusable launch vehicle planned by SpaceX and scheduled to launch in 2009. Several variants are proposed with payloads of between 9,900 kg and 27,500 kg to low Earth orbit , and between 4,900 kg and 12,000 kg to geostationary transfer orbit....
 rocket. Renovations include installation of new liquid oxygen
Liquid oxygen

Liquid oxygen is a form of the element oxygen. It has a pale blue color and is strongly paramagnetism. Liquid oxygen has a density of 1.141 g/cm? and is moderately cryogenics ...
 and kerosene
Kerosene

Kerosene, sometimes spelled kerosine in scientific and industrial usage, also known as paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid....
 tanks and contruction of a hangar for rocket and payload preparation.

The first Falcon 9 rocket arrived at LC-40 in late 2008, and was erected for the first time on 2009-01-10. It is expected to launch later in 2009. LC-40 will become the launch facility of the SpaceX Dragon, a reusable automated cargo vehicle which will replace the cargo capabilities of the Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
 following its retirement in 2010.