Launch Complex 37

LC-37 is the launch complex which launched the final Saturn Is, all Block IIs. It also launched two Saturn IBs, AS-203 and AS-204 (Apollo 1's repurposed launch vehicle) to launch Apollo 5, the unmanned mission which tested LM-1.

After Apollo 7 was launched from near-by LC-34, LC-34 and LC-37 were 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-37 was then decommissioned.

Around the turn of the century, Boeing refurbished LC-37 for Delta IV launches. At one time Boeing also maintained a small picture gallery of modern LC-37 photos.

When we visited (June 2005), a Delta IV was being readied to launch the GOES-N weather satellite. The satellite's launch was plagued with delays; on the bright side, the multiple launch attempts has resulted in many fine photos of both the satellite and the launch vehicle being prepared for launch.

The tour bus did not stop at LC-37, so my photos of it are limited to those taken through the bus window.

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