Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center is a spaceport in Florida, situated west of Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island, and is part of a region known as the "Space Coast", since all of the crewed United States spacecraft are launched from the Space Coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: Max Siegmayer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Space center
- Description: United States space launch site in Florida
- Also known as: “John F. Kennedy Space Center”, “John F. Kennedy Space Center, KSC”, and “KSC”
Photo: Scottmeltzer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Control Center.
Vehicle Assembly Building
Hangar
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, is a large building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center 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.
Launch Control Center
Building
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, used to manage launches of launch vehicles from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39.
Kennedy Space Center
- Categories: spaceport, research institute, NASA facility, and transportation
- Location: Brevard, Space Coast, Florida, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kennedy Space Center” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kennedy-ruimtesentrum”
- Arabic: “مركز كينيدي للفضاء”
- Armenian: “Քենեդի տիեզերական կենտրոն”
- Asturian: “Centru espacial John F. Kennedy”
- Azerbaijani: “Kennedi Kosmik Mərkəzi”
- Basque: “Kennedy zentro espaziala”
- Belarusian: “Касмічны цэнтр Кенэдзі”
- Belarusian: “касьмічны цэнтар імя Кенэдзі”
- Bengali: “কেনেডি মহাকাশ কেন্দ্র”
- Bengali: “কেনেডি স্পেস সেন্টার”
- Bosnian: “Svemirski centar "Kennedy"”
- Bosnian: “Svemirski centar Kennedy”
- Bulgarian: “Космически център Джон Ф. Кенеди”
- Catalan: “Centre Espacial John F. Kennedy”
- Cebuano: “John F Kennedy Space Center”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوەندی بۆشاییی کێنیدی”
- Chinese: “Kennedy Thài-khong Tiong-sim”
- Chinese: “甘乃迪太空中心”
- Chinese: “甘迺迪太空中心”
- Chinese: “肯尼迪航天中心”
- Croatian: “Svemirski centar John F. Kennedy”
- Czech: “Kennedyho vesmírné středisko”
- Danish: “John F. Kennedy Space Center”
- Dutch: “Kennedy Space Center”
- Esperanto: “Kennedy Space Center”
- Esperanto: “kosmocentro Kennedy”
- Estonian: “Kennedy Kosmosekeskus”
- Finnish: “Kennedyn avaruuskeskus”
- French: “centre spatial Kennedy”
- French: “Centre spatial Kennedy”
- Galician: “Centro Espacial John F. Kennedy”
- Georgian: “კენედის კოსმოსური ცენტრი”
- German: “Kennedy Space Center”
- Greek: “Διαστημικό Κέντρο Κένεντι”
- Hebrew: “מרכז החלל קנדי”
- Hindi: “कैनेडी स्पेस सेंटर”
- Hungarian: “Kennedy Űrközpont”
- Ido: “Kosmodromo di Kennedy”
- Indonesian: “Pusat Antariksa Kennedy”
- Indonesian: “Pusat Luar Angkasa Kennedy”
- Irish: “Lárionad Spáis John F. Kennedy”
- Italian: “John F. Kennedy Space Center”
- Japanese: “ケネディ宇宙センター”
- Korean: “케네디 우주 센터”
- Latvian: “Kenedija kosmosa centrs”
- Latvian: “Kenedija Kosmosa centrs”
- Lithuanian: “Kenedžio kosminių skrydžių centras”
- Luxembourgish: “Kennedy Space Center”
- Malay: “Pusat Angkasa Kennedy”
- Marathi: “केनेडी अंतराळ केंद्र”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kennedy Thài-khong Tiong-sim”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “John F. Kennedy Space Center”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “John F. Kennedy Space Center”
- Norwegian: “John F. Kennedy Space Center”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Centre Espaciau Kennedy”
- Persian: “پایگاه فضایی کندی”
- Persian: “مرکز فضایی کندی”
- Polish: “Centrum Kosmiczne imienia Johna F. Kennedy’ego”
- Polish: “Centrum Kosmiczne Johna F. Kennedy’ego”
- Polish: “Kennedy Space Center”
- Polish: “KSC”
- Portuguese: “Centro Espacial John F. Kennedy”
- Romanian: “Centrul Spațial Kennedy”
- Russian: “Космический центр имени Джона Фицджеральда Кеннеди”
- Russian: “Космический центр Кеннеди”
- Scots: “Kennedy Space Centre”
- Serbian: “Свемирски центар Кенеди”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Svemirski centar Kennedy”
- Shona: “Kennedy Space Center”
- Slovak: “Kennedyho vesmírne stredisko”
- Slovenian: “Kennedyjev vesoljski center”
- Spanish: “CEK”
- Spanish: “Centro espacial John F. Kennedy”
- Spanish: “Centro Espacial John F. Kennedy”
- Spanish: “KSC”
- Swedish: “John F. Kennedy Space Center”
- Swiss German: “Kennedy Space Center”
- Tagalog: “Kennedy Space Center”
- Tamil: “கென்னடி விண்வெளி மையம்”
- Thai: “ศูนย์อวกาศเคนเนดี”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kennedy Space Center”
- Turkish: “Kennedy Uzay Merkezi”
- Ukrainian: “Космічний центр імені Кеннеді”
- Vietnamese: “Trung tâm vũ trụ Kennedy”
- Welsh: “Canolfan Ofod Kennedy”
- Western Frisian: “Kennedy Space Center”
- Wu Chinese: “肯尼迪航天中心”
- Yoruba: “Gbọ̀ngàn Òfurufú Kennedy”
- Yue Chinese: “甘迺迪太空中心”
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