Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral

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1. Story
2. The Florida pad from which both Voyagers left the Earth, sixteen days apart in the late summer of 1977. It was built for the Titan family and in the 1970s flew the Titan IIIE with a Centaur upper stage — the combination used for the Viking Mars landers and for both Voyagers. The complex was later demolished down to its foundations and rebuilt for the Atlas V, and is now a working commercial and crewed launch site, so nothing of the structure the Voyagers left from remains standing.
3. Knowledge
4. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
5. Connections
6. Voyager 1
7. Voyager 2
8. Voyager 2 launches
9. Voyager 1 launches
10. Evidence
11. The canonical mission record for both spacecraft: launch dates of 20 August 1977 (Voyager 2) and 5 September 1977 (Voyager 1), the Titan IIIE-Centaur launch vehicle, Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, the eleven-instrument science payload and the three-generator power system. V55 verification basis: THE CATALOGUE WAS NOT REACHED. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov returned EGRESS_BLOCKED when fetched and the search budget was exhausted before it could be searched; the COSPAR designations and every fact attributed here come from standard mission record held in general knowledge, not from the catalogue. This record names where a curator should check, not what was checked.