Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 3
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Launch of Bumper 8 from LC-3. This was the first launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
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| Launch site | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station | ||||||||||
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| Location | Cape Canaveral, Florida | ||||||||||
| Short name | LC-3 | ||||||||||
| Operator | US Air Force | ||||||||||
| Total launches | 77 | ||||||||||
| Launch pad(s) | 1 | ||||||||||
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Launch Complex 3 (LC-3) is a deactivated US Air Force launch site southeast of SLC-36 on Cape Canaveral, Florida at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It was constructed, with launch complexes 1, 2, and 4, in the early 1950s for the Snark missile program.[1]
It was formerly used to launch Bumper, BOMARC, UGM-27 Polaris, and Lockheed X-17 missiles. The pad was also the site of the first launch from Cape Canaveral, a Bumper rocket on July 24, 1950. The site also served as a medical support facility during Project Mercury.[2]
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