LEGO Designer:
Dan Fallon (phreaddee)
Designed: December 2018
Categories:
Launch Pads,
All,
Space Agency - NASA
Launch Complex 5 (LC5) was a launch site 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 Mercury-Redstone 4 flight. The Mercury-Redstone 1 pad abort, Mercury-Redstone 1A, and Mercury-Redstone 2, with chimpanzee Ham aboard, also used LC5.
A total of 23 launches were conducted from LC5: 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.
Manned Missions
- 05 May 1961
Mercury MR-3 “Freedom 7” crewed by Alan Shepard - 21 July 1961
Mercury MR-4 “Liberty Bell 7” crewed by Gus Grissom
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Designer Notes
Includes Mercury Redstone loosely based off of Muscovite Sandwich’s version.
Part count: 1298 bricks, 230 lots.
| Unit | width | length | height |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studs | 40.6 | 24.0 | 57.2 |
| Inches | 12.8 | 7.6 | 18.0 |
| Centimetres | 32.5 | 19.2 | 45.8 |
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