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Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5
Former launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5 (LC-5) was a launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida used for various Redstone and Jupiter launches.
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It is most well known as the launch site for NASA's 1961 suborbital Mercury-Redstone 3 flight, which made Alan Shepard the first American in space. It was also the launch site of Gus Grissom's July, 1961, Mercury-Redstone 4 flight. The Mercury-Redstone 1 pad abort, Mercury-Redstone 1A, and the January, 1961, Mercury-Redstone 2 with a chimpanzee, Ham, aboard, also used LC-5.
A total of 23 launches were conducted from LC-5: one Jupiter-A, six Jupiter IRBMs, one Jupiter-C, four Juno Is, four Juno IIs and seven Redstones. The first launch from the complex was a Jupiter-A on July 19, 1956 and the final launch was Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 capsule on July 21, 1961.[1]
LC-5 is located next to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum which is located at LC-26. The original launch consoles and computers are on display in the LC-5 blockhouse.[2][3] As of 2020[update], a tour of the museum can be arranged through the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex's "Cape Canaveral: Early Space Tour". One tour is offered daily, so the number of visitors is limited by the size of the tour.
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All launches before October 1958 operated by the United States Army. All launches since operated by NASA.
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- Preparations on May 16, 1958 for the first PGM-11 Redstone launch on May 17 conducted by US Army troops
- Launch of Liberty Bell 7 (MR-4)
- Blockhouse (2010)
- Firing button (2010)
- LC-5 with display Redstone (2010)
- LC 5&6 blockhouse (now museum)
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