Photo Gallery
April 1965 – Launch Complex 30
10 September 1976, Launch Complex 30
Pershing I, 25 February 1960, Launch Complex 30
Service tower, 30 June 1960, Launch Complex 30
Pershing I, 12 April 1963, Launch Complex 30
Overview
Systems
Other Programs
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Cost: $2,460,000
Launch Complex 30 Highlights
- Two pads built for the Army Pershing I missile program
- December 1958 – Construction started
- 22 January 1960 – Construction completed
- 10 February 1960 – U.S. Army accepted the launch complex
- A two-story blockhouse with an 8′ thick roof, two launch pads with service towers, missile installation and checkout building and helicopter apron
- 5 January 1961 to 24 April 1963 – Total of 10 Pershing I test mission launched from Pad 30
- 25 February 1960 to 21 March 1963 – Total of 45 Pershing I launched from Pad 30A
- 14 February 1968 – Mobile gantry dismantled and sold for salvage
- March 1968 – Pad made available to the Navy for use in assembling MK48 torpedoes for sea test
