Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34
Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 34 (LC- 34) is a disused start ramp of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Merritt Iceland, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.
The construction of the launch complex began in June 1959. He was 37 built together with the Launch Complex as part of the Apollo program to the start of the Saturn 1 and Saturn 1B rocket.
Between 1961 and 1968, four Saturn 1 and Saturn 1B three were launched from here. After the launch complex for a possible launch in the framework of the Skylab program was kept ready. However, it later decided to launch complex LC - 39th LC -34 was subsequently closed down in November 1971.
On January 27, 1967, came here at the Mission AS -204 (later known as Apollo 1 ) to a catastrophe in which the astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee in a fire were killed. Today, a plaque commemorates this disaster.
On October 11, 1968 launched the first manned and final mission of LC -34 Apollo 7 This was also the date last manned U.S. launch, which was not held by the LC - 39.
In April 1984, the launch complex for the National Historic Landmark was declared. It can be in the context of: be visited by the visitor center at the Kennedy Space Center " Cape Canaveral Then & Now Tour".