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[paranoid123]

Does anyone have a link or document that describes launch pad structures? I'm interested and curious about the launch gantry structure, what structures holds up the rocket, and where does the spent exhaust goes during launch.

Thank you.

[Guest_MarkG_*]

'Umbilical Systems: V-2 to Saturn V' might have some of the information you're looking for. It includes diagrams of a lot of the launch-pad systems for different rockets up to the Saturns.

http://www-lib.ksc.nasa.gov/lib/Archives/umbilical.pdf

I know I have some other documents with that kind of information, but with multiple gigabytes to search through, most with non-descriptive filenames from the NTRS server they'd take a while to track down .