Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Complex prepares to open Atlantis exhibit in Florida. (12 images)

Thirty two years to the day since NASA launched Space Shuttle Columbia on its maiden voyage, the space agency is making final preparations to shut down launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on April 12, 2013. NASA hopes that commercial companies, like SpaceX could find some use for the complex in the future. The pad was built in the 1960s to support the Apollo flights to the moon as well as the Space Shuttle program. .UPI/Joe Marino-Bill Cantrell

Inside the "Rubber Room" under Launch Complex 39A thirty two years to the day since NASA launched Space Shuttle Columbia on its maiden voyage on April 12, 2013. The space agency is making final preparations to shut down the pad after over forty years of launching Apollo era rockets and the Space Shuttle. NASA hopes that commercial companies, like SpaceX could find some use for the complex in the future. .UPI/Joe Marino-Bill Cantrell