Launch Complex 34

LC-34 is the launch complex which launched the first four Saturn Is, all Block Is. The next six Saturn launches, all Block II Saturn Is, were all launched from LC-37 while LC-34 was being retrofitted for Saturn IB launches. LC-34 then saw the launch of Saturn IBs AS-201 and AS-202. AS-203 was launched from LC-37, while LC-34 was readied for AS-204, better known as Apollo 1.

After the Apollo tragedy, AS-204 (repurposed as the unmanned Apollo 5, launching LM-1) was moved to LC-37 while LC-34 was prepped for Apollo 7. After Apollo 7, LC-34 was mothballed for possible use during the Apollo Applications Program (aka "AAP", which evolved into the Skylab program), but it was decided to instead modify LC-39 to launch the three manned Skylab missions and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). LC-34 was then decommissioned, famously marked "Abandon in Place".

NASA picture LOC-63C-841 shows the launch complex during its operational phase, as do several unnumbered NASA photographs, offering comparisons to the facility today.

Google Maps link.

As of now, I have not yet sorted through all of my pictures from LC-34, but some other page references this location. Thus, this is a "place holder" version right now, with only the pictures actually referenced. Come back some time later to see if I've finished up, or drop me an email to request me to prioritize the rest of these pictures.