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Description
6339 Shuttle Launch Pad is a Lego's first model of a shuttle and its launch pad. It is composed of a shuttle with external tank and solid rocket boosters, a satellite that can be carried in the shuttle's cargo bay, a launch pad with a small mission control center, and a 'crawler' to carry the shuttle to the launch pad. There are four minifigures: an astronaut, a scientist and two mechanics/technicians.
The set is one of the more realistic of the space sets, due to features such as a fully functional crane on the launch pad that can lift the shuttle off the crawler onto the launch pad and the moveable robot arm in the shuttle, as well as its relatively close resemblance to the actual space shuttle. This contrasts starkly with the more juniorized set 6456 Mission Control in Space Port, which is the equivalent set in the theme that succeeded Launch Command.
