Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 Blockhouse

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 Blockhouse

Launch Complex 14 Blockhouse

Cape Canaveral (Fla.)

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Fla.)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)

NASA

Project Mercury (U.S.)

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 (LC-14), where some of the United States' first astronauts were launched into space, had a heavily built concrete and steel blockhouse which housed the actual rocket firing button. This blockhouse was built to withstand a rocket exploding on or close to the launchpad, which can seen in the background of the third photograph. Two months before Leroy "Gordo" Gordon Cooper, Jr.'s flight on the Mercury-Atlas rocket named Faith 7, the launch site stood ready.

Original black and white photographic prints, March 15, 1963: Private Collection of Dr. Calvin D. Fowler.

1963-03-15

Fowler, Calvin D.

Digital reproduction of original black and white photographic prints, March 15, 1963.

Dr. Calvin Fowler Collection, Florida Space Coast History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 Blockhouse, Cape Canaveral, Florida

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Originally owned by Dr. Calvin D. Fowler.

Copyright to this resource is held by Dr. Calvin D. Fowler and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Michlowitz, Robert

Cepero, Laura

"Project Mercury Overview." John F. Kennedy Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/mercury-overview.htm.