Astronaut beach house, Single-family home and convention center in Cape Canaveral, US

The Astronaut Beach House is a two-story house built in 1962 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, with pale yellow horizontal siding, a flat roof trimmed in peach, and two levels of peach-painted wooden decking with pale yellow balusters. A peach door and a wide dark glass window face the lower deck, and a short staircase descends on the far left.

The Astronaut Beach House was built in 1962 as part of the Neptune Beach subdivision at Cape Canaveral. In 1963 NASA acquired the development through eminent domain for $31,500 as Kennedy Space Center expanded, and the other private homes were removed; this house was kept. It was officially called the Astronaut Training and Rehabilitation Building and is today titled the Kennedy Space Center Conference Center.

The house is officially the Kennedy Space Center Conference Center, though astronauts have always called it the Astronaut Beach House or simply The Beach House. Crews and their families use it for private gatherings and barbecues before launch. Inside, wine bottles signed by crew members and marked with mission decals are kept as memorabilia.

The house is a private conference center on Kennedy Space Center property between Pads 40 and 41, not open to the public, so it cannot be visited on a normal trip. It stands about 50 meters (160 ft) back from the shoreline, and access is controlled by NASA.

The property stands roughly 50 meters (about 160 feet) from the water, squeezed between two launch pads called Pad 40 and Pad 41. Despite being surrounded by a working spaceport, this simple family home was kept while every other house in the old neighborhood was removed.