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Launch Complex 12
Systems
Other Programs
- Project FIRE
- Ranger
- Mariner (Mars and Venus)
- Pioneer
- ATS
- OAO
- OGO
Cost:
$7,335,000
Launch Complex Highlights
- January 1956 - Construction started
- 15 August 1957 - Air Force accepted the complex
- 10 January 1958 - 3 June 1958 - Three Atlas A
launched
- 24 December 1958 - 24 August 1959 - Six Atlas C
launched
- 26 September 1959 and 15 December 1960 - Two
unsuccessful NASA Pioneer lunar missions involving the
Atlas Able
- 20 May 1960 - 23 Jan 1961 - Five Atlas D launched
- 23 August 1961 - 22 March 1965 - Nine NASA Ranger
missions with Atlas Agena B
- 22 July 1962 and 27 August 1962 - Two NASA Mariner
missions with Atlas Agena B
- 14 April 1964 and 21 March 1965 - Two Atlas Antares
II FIRE launches
- 28 November 1964 and 14 June 1967 - Two NASA Mariner
missions on Atlas Agena D
- Total 37 Atlas were launched from
this pad. One static test on 24 September 1959 exploded
on the pad.
- After 5 November 1967 - Pad deactivated
- December 1976 - Pad completely dismantled
- September 2009 - Blockhouse demolished