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Launch Complex 5

Launch Complex 5

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Designed: December 2018

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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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