Launch Complex 5

Local nameLaunch Complex 5
LocationBrevard County, United States

Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 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.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Air_Force_Station_Launch_Complex_5

Address (Unnamed Road), 32925, United States

Coordinates 28°26'21.935" N -80°34'23.852" E

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