Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is a 140,000-acre U.S. National Wildlife Refuge on the Atlantic coast of 's largest barrier island. NASA's and visitor complex are also situated on the island and NASA can restrict access to the refuge based on its operational needs.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Launch and Landing Facility and Vehicle Assembly Building.

Aerodrome
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Shuttle Landing Facility, also known as , is an located on in , , . is situated 2 miles north of Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

Hangar
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The , or VAB, is a large building at NASA's in Florida, designed to assemble large pre-manufactured space vehicle components, such as the massive Saturn V, the Space Shuttle and the Space Launch System, and stack them vertically onto one of three mobile launcher platforms used by NASA. is situated 2 miles east of Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

Hangar
Photo: NASA, Public domain.

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

Latitude
28.58554° or 28° 35′ 8″ north
Longitude
-80.68779° or 80° 41′ 16″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
76WXH8P6+6V
Geo­Names ID
4164096
Wiki­data ID
Q6820354
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Satellite Map

Discover Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Japanese—“Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge”
  • Esperanto: “Nacia Naturrezervejo Insulo Merritt”
  • French: “Refuge faunique national Merritt Island”
  • Japanese: “メリット島国立野生生物保護区”

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