Pre-launch alert, Complex 36B. Gantry pull back with LOX vapor around launcher, Centaur 9. Surveyor Mass Model Spacecraft.

Atlas Centaur 22 was launched from Cape Kennedy’s Complex 36B at 6:28 A.M. today to place Orbiting Astronomical Observatory – C in a 460-mile high circular orbit.

Pre-launch of Centaur 4 A/C 4 from Pad 36A.

An Atlas-Centaur rocket carrying the Mariner 6 spacecraft lifted off from Cape Kennedy’s Launch Complex 36B at 8:29 P.M. EST, February 24, 1969. The spacecraft’s journey to Mars will span five months, bringing it to within 2,000 miles to help determine whether that planet can support life.