Launch Complex 5 (LC-5) was a launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Florida used for various Redstone and Jupiter launches.It is most well known as the launch site for NASA’s 1961 suborbital Mercury-Redstone 3 flight which made Alan Shepard the first American in space. It was also the launch site of Gus Grissom’s Mercury-Redstone 4 flight.
