Merritt Island
Merritt Island is an island in Brevard, Florida. Merritt Island is situated nearby to the locality Orsino, as well as near Launch Complex 39.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: peninsula in Brevard County, Florida, United States
- Also known as: “Merritts Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and Operations and Checkout Building.
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
Theme park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the visitor center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. It features exhibits and displays, historic spacecraft and memorabilia, shows, two IMAX theaters, and a range of bus tours of the spaceport.
Operations and Checkout Building
Building
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building is a historic building on Merritt Island, Florida, United States. The five-story structure is in the Industrial Area of NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Space Systems Processing Facility
Building
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Space Systems Processing Facility, originally the Space Station Processing Facility, is a three-story industrial building at Kennedy Space Center for the manufacture and processing of flight hardware, modules, structural components and solar arrays of the International Space Station, and future space stations and commercial spacecraft.
Merritt Island
- Categories: peninsula, locality, and landform
- Location: Brevard, Florida, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.54139° or 28° 32′ 29″ northLongitude
-80.67255° or 80° 40′ 21″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
76WXG8RG+HXOpenStreetMap ID
node 358700231OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Slovenian—“Merritt Island” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Merritt Island”
- Cebuano: “Merritt Island”
- Slovenian: “Merritt Island”
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Localities in the Area
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