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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.
Because Port Canaveral interrupts this movement of sand, each year about 200,000 cubic yards (150,000 m 3) of sand builds up on the beaches located 1 to 2 miles (1.6 to 3.2 km) north of the port's jetties, and sand erodes from the beaches 10 to 15 miles (16 to 24 km) south of the jetties.
The storm took a northeasterly path through the state Peninsula, exiting near Cape Canaveral. On the forecast track, the center of Milton will move away from Florida and to the north of the ...
Editor's note: This page reflects the news of Hurricane Milton on Wednesday, Oct. 9. For the latest updates on Hurricane Milton's aftermath across Florida, read USA TODAY's live hurricane coverage ...
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.
The Canaveral Barge Canal is an active canal in Brevard County, Florida, cutting east-west across northern Merritt Island just south of Cape Canaveral. It connects the Atlantic Ocean and Port Canaveral with the Indian River and wider Indian River Lagoon, part of the Intracoastal Waterway. The canal consists of two segments separated by the ...
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.
Kennedy Space Center, operated by NASA, has two launch complexes on Merritt Island comprising four pads—two active, one under lease, and one inactive.From 1967 to 1975, it was the site of 13 Saturn V launches, three crewed Skylab flights and the Apollo–Soyuz; all Space Shuttle flights from 1981 to 2011, and one Ares 1-X flight in 2009.