Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 5
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 5 (LC-5) was a Launch Site at Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The site was used for various Redstone and Jupiter launches.
It is most well known as the launch site for NASAs Mercury-Redstone 3 flight, which made Alan Shepard the first American in space. It was also the launch site of Gus Grissom’s Mercury-Redstone 4 flight. The Mercury-Redstone 1 “Flight”, Mercury-Redstone 1A, and Mercury-Redstone 2, with Ham aboard, also used LC-5.
A total of twenty-three launches (sixteen Redstone and seven Jupiter) were made from LC-5. The first launch from this complex was July 19, 1956, and the final launch was Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 capsule on July 21, 1961.
Launch Complex 5 is currently a museum, and a tour of the blockhouse can be arranged through the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center. All original equipment used to launch the Mercury-Redstone rockets is on display in the blockhouse.
[edit] See also
- Air Force Space & Missile Museum
- List of Merritt Island launch sites
- Merritt Island
- Project Mercury
- Jupiter
- Redstone
[edit] External links
- Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 5 is at coordinates Coordinates:
- http://www.astronautix.com/sites/capallc5.htm
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