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SpaceX shifts away from Dragon launches at pad 39A as Starship looms – Spaceflight Now
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It hurts to see it come down. The redundancy of two pads with crew capability was great. I can understand the maintenance on that old tower being awful and not having a launch rate that justified it (only 3ish Crew Dragons per year), but it still stinks to lose that capability.