Launch Complex 19 (LC-19) is a deactivated launch site on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida used by NASA to launch all of the Gemini crewed spaceflights. It was also used by uncrewed Titan I and Titan II missiles.

LC-19 was in use from 1959 to 1966, during which time it saw 27 launches, 10 of which were crewed. The first flight from LC-19 was on August 14, 1959 and ended in a pad explosion, extensively damaging the facility, which took a few months to repair. The first successful launch from LC-19 was also a Titan I, on February 2, 1960. After being converted for the Titan II ICBM program in 1962, LC-19 was later designated for the Gemini flights. After the program concluded in December 1966, LC-19 was closed down.

Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 19

The Gemini white room from the top of the booster erector has been partially restored and is on display at the Air Force Space and Missile Museum located at Complex 26.

Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 19

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See also

Gemini Program

Gemini 1

Gemini 2

Gemini 3

Gemini 4

Gemini 5

Gemini 7

Gemini 6A

Gemini 8

Gemini 9A

Gemini 10

Gemini 11

Gemini 12

Titan I

Titan II

References

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Project Gemini

Launch complexes of the United States Space Force

Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 19