Launch Complex 40 comes crashing down...sorta

The last exciting thing to happen at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida was the final launch of the Titan IV rocket in 2005. That was until April 28th, when a group of rocket scientists NASA and the Air Force orchestrated an "interesting" implosion of the mobile service gantry. As you can see in the video, instead of collapsing straight down, the gantry kind of leans over and falls to ground before sort of bouncing a little. Good job, NASA, now you still have a giant structure to get rid of.

The actual launch tower of LC-40 was disassembled earlier this year. The site is probably most famous for it's launches of Titan rockets carrying the Mars Viking lander and the somewhat more recent Cassini spacecraft. Twon't we launching anything else anytime soon.

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