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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14
Launch Complex 14 (LC-14) is a launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. LC-14 was used for various manned and unmanned Atlas launches, including the ''Friendship 7'' flight aboard which John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.
==History==
LC-14 was the first Atlas pad in operation and hosted the initial test flights in 1957-58. It was also the only of the original four Atlas pads to never have a booster explode on it. By 1959, it was decided to convert the pad for space launches and a large service tower was added early in the year. The first such flight was the Big Joe Mercury test in September. As the designated Mercury-Atlas facility, LC-14 was thus the only Atlas pad sporting the infrastructure needed for manned launches. The first MIDAS satellites and a few more ICBM tests were conducted from LC-14 before it was completely turned over to NASA.
LC-14 is most well known as the launch site for NASA's Mercury-Atlas 6 flight, which made Glenn the first American in orbit. It was also the launch site of the remaining three Mercury-Atlas flights and various unmanned Atlas launches. Later, it was the site for Atlas-Agena launches for the Agena Target Vehicles for Project Gemini.
Following decommissioning and abandonment as an active launch site, LC-14 slowly fell into decay. The proximity to the Atlantic Ocean created an ideal environment for corrosion of metal components, and the complex's red metal gantry structures were dismantled for safety purposes in the 1970s.〔Hennig, Katy (July 5, 2014) ("Historic Documentation: Documenting Cape Canaveral" ) ''LiDAR News'' Spatial Media LLC, Frederick, MD〕
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