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Spaceports, ranges and pads

Launch Complex 5

The Mercury-Redstone pad from which Alan Shepard flew Freedom 7 on 5 May 1961 [NASAMR3].

Entity type
launch complex
Kind
facility, site or pad
Lane
Spaceports, ranges and pads
Place
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Hub region
Space Coast
Founding year
1961
Florida space year and timeline placement
1961 · 1961: Project Mercury flies from Launch Complex 5 (1961)
Role
Mercury-Redstone pad
Cutoff status
Retired, historic site
Status as of the cutoff
Retired. No launch from the complex appears in any source on this map after the Mercury flights.
Entity status
historic or successor
Project status
not applicable
Evidence class
historic or successor
Confidence
High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
Degree
1
Betweenness
0.0000 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
Sources
[NASAMR3]

Connections

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