Launch Control Center

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
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
LC-39 Launch Control Center
Location within Florida Location within the United States
Nearest city	Titusville, Florida
Coordinates	28°35′7″N 80°38′59″W
Area	12,047 m2 (129,670 sq ft)
Built	1967
MPS	John F. Kennedy Space Center MPS
NRHP reference No.	99001645
Added to NRHP	January 21, 2000

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.

LCC has conducted launches since the unmanned Apollo 4 (SA-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 I. In February 2022, the center was renamed after former director of launch operations Rocco A. Petrone.