The Kennedy Space Center
The Kennedy Space Center shuttle launch control center team and the STS-118 astronauts completed a practice countdown July 19 with the crew on board the orbiter Endeavour at Launch Complex 39A. The countdown ended with a simulated pad abort to exercise evacuation procedures.
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