While the Ares I-X was technically a success, there was a bit of damage to both the pad and solid rocket booster. According to NASASpaceFlight.com’s L2 section the vehicle actually was supposed to launch at a bit of an angle to help it clear the Fixed Service Structure or FSS.  The known downside of this was a couple of seconds of the massively hot Ares first stage exhaust hitting the FSS. While we were speculating about the apparent angle at liftoff during our live coverage, that was in fact planned but did damage pad 39B in the process.

NASASpaceFlight.com L2 Resources:

Ares I-X SRB additional pics – http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=19398.0

LC-39B additional pics – http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=19300.0

Underwater SRB pictures – http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=19283.0