The 1998 Florida Firestorm and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

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A lightning strike at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July 2014. Bolts like this are a regular occurrence in central Florida. Similar lightning strikes sparked the 1998 Florida Firestorm.

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Lightning Crashes

East central Florida’s natural environment and climate have shaped, and delayed, Kennedy Space Center launch operations since the 1960s.