Construction
January, 1959 - The Advanced Research Projects Agency selects a site for the new Saturn complex, situated 710 meters north of pad 20.
June, 1959 - Western Contracting Company began hydraulic-fill operations at the pad.
August 14 1959 - Kaiser Steel begins work on the Mobile Service Structure.
November, 1959 - The Henry C. Beck Construction firm started work on the pad facilities.
April, 1961 - First flame deflector delivered to the pad.
June 5, 1961 - LC34 opened with a formal dedication ceremony.
Unmanned Saturn 1 tests:
SA-1 - October 27, 1961 10:06 a.m EST.
SA-2 - April 25, 1962 09:00:34 a.m. EST.
SA-3 - November 16, 1962
SA-4 - March 28, 1963. 03:11:55 p.m. EST.
Unmanned Saturn 1B tests:
SA-201 - February 26, 1966; 11:12:01 a.m EST.
SA-202 - August 25, 1966, 1:15:32 pm EDT
Manned Saturn 1B tests:
SA-204 - Apollo 1 - January 27, 1967 (Prime crew killed in fire)
SA-205 - Apollo 7 - October 11, 1968, 11:02:45am EST
In 1984 Complex 34 was declared a national landmark.
Dec 18, 1997 - Astronauts Ed White II and Roger Chaffee, were posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor by President Clinton in a ceremony at the White House. (Gus Grissom, the Apollo 1 commander, was posthumously awarded the medal by President Carter in 1978.)
April 6, 1999 - Kennedy Space Center joins a consortium of other federal agencies to begin experimenting with techniques to clean up contaminated ground water at LC34. A signing ceremony is held at the pad.
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