Portal:Spaceflight/Selected article/Week 26 2007

Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) was a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The complex was used for the Atlas-Centaur, and its successors, the Atlas II and III, between 1962 and 2005. The Fixed Umbilical Towers were demolished during the autumn of 2006, and the Mobile Service Structures were toppled by controlled explosions (pictured) on 16 June 2007 (more...)