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Launch Complex 5 (LC-5) was a launch site at Cape Canaveral Air 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 Mercury-Redstone 4 flight. The Mercury-Redstone 1 pad abort, Mercury-Redstone 1A, and Mercury-Redstone 2, with 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. 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.〔http://www.astronautix.com/sites/capallc5.htm〕 LC-5 is located next to the Air Force Space & Missile Museum. The original consoles used to launch the Mercury-Redstone rockets are on display in the blockhouse. a tour of the blockhouse (and the museum) can be arranged through the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex's "Cape Canaveral: Then and Now" tour. One tour is offered daily, so the number of visitors is limited by the size of the tour. ==Launch chronology== *July 19, 1956: Jupiter-A CC-13 *September 20, 1956: Jupiter-C RS-27 *March 1, 1957: Jupiter IRBM AM-1A *April 26, 1957: Jupiter IRBM AM-1B *May 31, 1957: Jupiter IRBM AM-1 *March 26, 1958: Juno I RS-24 (Explorer 3) *May 17, 1958: Redstone RS-1002 *July 26, 1958: Juno I RS/CC-44 (Explorer 4) *August 24, 1958: Juno I RS/CC-47 (Explorer 5) *October 23, 1958: Juno I RS/CC-49 (Beacon 1) *December 6, 1958: Juno II AM-11 (Pioneer 3) *January 22, 1959: Jupiter IRBM CM-21 *March 3, 1959: Juno II AM-14 (Pioneer 4) *May 14, 1959: Jupiter IRBM AM-17 *July 16, 1959: Juno II AM-16 (Explorer S-1, failed) *August 27, 1959: Jupiter IRBM AM-19 *October 13, 1959: Juno II AM-19A (Explorer 7) *November 21, 1960: Redstone MRLV-1 (MR-1) *December 19, 1960: Redstone MRLV-3 (MR-1A) *January 31, 1961: Redstone MRLV-2 (MR-2) *March 24, 1961: Redstone MRLV-5 (MR-BD) *May 5, 1961: Redstone MRLV-7 (MR-3) *July 21, 1961: Redstone MRLV-8 (MR-4) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 5」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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