NASA: Ares takes over Shuttle launch pad 39B

NASA announced on May 31, 2009, that its Launch Pad 39B at Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, has been transferred from the Shuttle Program to the new Constellation Program. Pad 39B will be readied for the first flight test of its new Ares I rocket, now scheduled for August 2009.According to the NASA article “NASA’s shuttle program hands over launch pad to Constellation,” modifications to