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- From: dumoulin@titan.ksc.nasa.gov (Jim Dumoulin)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: Re: Two pads??
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.231746.3033@titan.ksc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 23:17:46 EST
- References: <92209.044513PDC103@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Jul27.125338.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center
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- In article <1992Jul27.125338.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov>, oliver@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
- > In article <92209.044513PDC103@psuvm.psu.edu>, PDC103@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >
- > ...(lead in discussion deleted)..................
- > was mothballed. Pad 41A is now used to support Titan IV launches. I do seem
- > to remember that the funding for the refurbishment of pad 41B was canceled.
- > Pat Oliver -
-
- There seems to be much confusion about Launch complex numbers starting
- off with the original poster confusing the Shuttle Launch complexes
- 39A and 39B with the Titan Launch Complexes. Further postings refered to
- these as Launch complex 41A and 41B. They are actually Launch Complex
- C-41 (Just south of LC-39A) and originally used for the Titan-III-Centaur
- and Launch Complex C-40 which is just south of C-41. These pads are
- used for the Titan IV (one for military and one commercial). Works is
- going on at both of these pads.
-
- Pads at the cape can be very difficult to understand. For the most part
- they got their number by the start date of construction and some complexes
- were built on top of previous complexes. Kennedy space center was
- originally surveyed out to have 4 Apollo pads (LC-39A,B,C and D). Pads
- C and D were never built (they would have been to the north of the
- current pads) and the Titan complex was planned later but finished sooner
- because they were simpler and funded seperately. They were built to the south
- of LC-39 and their first launch occured in 1965. The first launch from
- LC-39 was the unmanned Apollo 4 in 1967. Most of these pads were built
- on reclaimed land dregged from the Banana river.
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