Launch Complex 6 (LC-6) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida is a launch site used by Redstone and Jupiter series rockets and missiles. It is on the south end of

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, close to Launch Complex 5, with which it shared a

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. With LC-5, it was the location of the first tests of the mobile launch concept designed by

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. This concept was revised and improved and eventually used at

LC-39 Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. The site and its collection of facilities were originally built as the Apollo program's "Moonport" and later mo ...

for the Saturn V and Space Shuttle. LC-6 was deactivated in 1961. The blockhouse and a square concrete pad are the only parts of the complex that remain intact, although the mobile service tower was under restoration as of 2011. The complex is part of the "Cape Canaveral: Then and Now" tour, available from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

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File:LC-5 blockhouse.jpg, Blockhouse (2010) File:LC-5 firing button.jpg, Firing button (2010)

References

Space Launch Report, Cape Canaveral Launch Complexes 5/6/26A/26B
{{Merritt Island Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

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