1.9 KiB
| title | chunk | source | category | tags | date_saved | instance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5 | 1/1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Launch_Complex_5 | reference | science, encyclopedia | 2026-05-05T13:06:08.908369+00:00 | kb-cron |
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. 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. 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. As of 2020, 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.
== Launch statistics == All launches before October 1958 operated by the United States Army. All launches since operated by NASA.
== Gallery ==
== See also == Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum List of Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island launch sites Project Mercury Jupiter Redstone Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 6 - used the same blockhouse
== References ==
== External links == https://web.archive.org/web/20090414180519/http://www.astronautix.com/sites/capallc5.htm