Kennedy Space Center, NASA facility in Brevard County, United States.
The Kennedy Space Center encompasses 144,000 acres of land with 700 facilities, including the Vehicle Assembly Building measuring 525 feet in height.
The Launch Operations Center, established in 1962, became the John F. Kennedy Space Center in 1963 under President Lyndon B. Johnson's executive order.
The center represents the main foundation of American space exploration, managing crucial missions from Project Mercury through the current Commercial Crew Program.
The Kennedy Space Center functions as a multi-user spaceport, maintaining partnerships with 100 private companies and executing 250 operational agreements.
The facility includes a vertical rocket assembly hangar and a mobile platform system to transport spacecraft between the assembly building and launch pads.
Location: Brevard County
Inception: July 1, 1959
Elevation above the sea: 3 m
Website: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html
Part of: Eastern Range
Website: http://nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home
GPS coordinates: 28.58528,-80.65083
Latest update: June 1, 2025 11:13
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Research facilities, observatories, and historical sites connected to space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life. These locations include radio telescopes, space centers, museums with space artifacts, and sites of documented UFO encounters.
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
2.6 km
Vehicle Assembly Building
120 m
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
12.9 km
Crawler-transporter
569 m
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
7.5 km
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
5.2 km
Kennedy Space Center
1.4 km
Space Mirror Memorial
7.3 km
Playalinda Beach
8.9 km
Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center
153 m
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
5.5 km
United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
14.4 km
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
7.8 km
Operations and Checkout Building
6.8 km
Crawlerway
3.5 km
Space Shuttle Atlantis
7.3 km
NASA Causeway
13.4 km
A. Max Brewer Bridge
14.9 km
Launch Complex 39 Press Site
640 m
American Police Hall of Fame & Museum
14.5 km
Central Instrumentation Facility
6.8 km
John F. Kennedy Space Center MPS
35 m
Hangar AE
12.4 km
Apollo / Saturn V Center
2.9 km
Mercury Monument
14.2 km
Conrad Creek
5.2 km
Titusville Beach
6.7 km
Puckett Creek
14 kmReviews
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