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It was "Port Canaveral" from 1954 to 1962, and then the City of Cape Canaveral from 1962 to 1963, when a larger post office was built. In 1963, President Lyndon Johnson issued an executive order renaming the area "Cape Kennedy", after President John F. Kennedy , who had set the goal of landing on the Moon .
Cape Canaveral is a city in Brevard County, Florida. It is part of the Palm Bay – Melbourne – Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area . The population was 9,912 at the 2020 US census.
Launch Complex 29 (LC-29) was a one-pad launch site at Cape Canaveral built for test flights of the US Navy's submarine-launched Polaris ballistic missiles from 1958 to 1980. It also launched Chevaline missiles, which were British Polaris A-3 missiles. [48]
Also, Cape Canaveral was inadequate to host the new launch facility design required for the mammoth 363-foot (111 m) tall, 7,500,000-pound-force (33,000 kN) thrust Saturn V rocket, which would be assembled vertically in a large hangar and transported on a mobile platform to one of several launch pads.
Falcon 9, Flight 3, above SpaceX Cape Canaveral launch complex, May 2012. In 2007, the US Air Force leased Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 to SpaceX to launch the Falcon 9 rocket. [8] During April 2008, construction started on the ground facilities necessary to support the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Florida's Space Coast is home to NASA's Kennedy Space Center & Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which is about 150 miles away from West Palm Beach.
Cape Canaveral and adjacent Merritt Island on Florida's Atlantic coast are home to the USA's Eastern Range, the most active rocket range and spaceport in the country. The Eastern Range hosts two groundside operators: the military Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and the civilian Kennedy Space Center .
About: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the company's latest batch of Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. For the latest schedule updates, visit ...