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Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 6
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Launch Complex 6 (LC-6) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida is a launch site used by Redstone and Jupiter series rockets and missiles.[1] It is on the south end of Cape Canaveral, close to Launch Complex 5, with which it shared a blockhouse.[2][3] With LC-5, it was the location of the first tests of the mobile launch concept designed by Kurt H. Debus.[citation needed] This concept was revised and improved and eventually used at LC-39 for the Saturn V and Space Shuttle.
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Active pads
Active pads not used for launches
Inactive leased pads
Inactive unleased pads
LC-6 was deactivated in 1961.[1] The blockhouse and a 61.96 m (203.3 ft) square concrete pad are the only parts of the complex that remain intact,[3] although the mobile service tower was under restoration as of 2011. The complex is part of the "Cape Canaveral: Then and Now" tour, available from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
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Gallery
- Blockhouse (2010)
- Firing button (2010)
See also
- Cape Canaveral
- Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5 - used the same blockhouse
References
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