LC-5

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LC-5 is a historic launch complex at Cape Canaveral used for early U.S. crewed spaceflights during the Mercury program.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic site
launch complex
adjacentTo LC-4
LC-6
associatedWithAgency NASA NERFINISHED
associatedWithAstronaut Alan Shepard NERFINISHED
Gus Grissom NERFINISHED
associatedWithProgram early U.S. human spaceflight
country United States of America
surface form: United States
era Cold War
Space Race NERFINISHED
firstCrewedLaunch 1961-05-05
firstCrewedMission Mercury-Redstone 3 NERFINISHED
hasAbbreviation LC-5
hasAlternativeName Launch Complex 5 NERFINISHED
hasFacility blockhouse
launch pad
heritageStatus historic launch site
launchedAstronaut Alan Shepard NERFINISHED
Virgil I. Grissom NERFINISHED
launchPadNumber 5
launchType suborbital crewed flights
launchVehicle Mercury-Redstone NERFINISHED
Redstone rocket NERFINISHED
locatedIn Cape Canaveral NERFINISHED
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station NERFINISHED
Florida
notableEvent first American crewed spaceflight
notableLaunch Freedom 7 NERFINISHED
Liberty Bell 7 NERFINISHED
Mercury-Redstone 3 NERFINISHED
Mercury-Redstone 4 NERFINISHED
operatedBy U.S. Space Force NERFINISHED
United States Air Force
partOf Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Launch Complexes 5 and 6 historic area NERFINISHED
Cape Canaveral launch complexes NERFINISHED
program Project Mercury NERFINISHED
secondCrewedMission Mercury-Redstone 4 NERFINISHED
status inactive
tourism occasionally open for public tours
usedBy NASA NERFINISHED
U.S. Department of Defense NERFINISHED
usedDuring early 1960s
usedFor Project Mercury missions NERFINISHED
crewed spaceflights
space launches

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