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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LC-5 canonical 3
LC-6 1

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

crewed spaceflights
space launches

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