Space Coast
Brevard County is on the east coast of Florida. Because of the presence of spaceports like Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center, where the manned missions to the moon and the Space Shuttles are based, Brevard County is also known as the Space Coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kennedy Space Center and Palm Bay.
Kennedy Space Center
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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.
Palm Bay
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Palm Bay is the largest city in Brevard County, with a population of over 115,000 in 2019. It is the core of the Palm Bay Metropolitan Area.
Cocoa Beach
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Forever linked to Cape Canaveral and the U.S. space program, Cocoa Beach is famous as the setting of the popular 1960s TV show I Dream of Jeannie. Filming for the TV show took place entirely in Southern California in place of Cocoa and Cape Canaveral.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Cape Canaveral and Melbourne.
Cape Canaveral
Melbourne
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Melbourne is on the Space Coast in Brevard County. Melbourne is a principal city of the Palm Bay – Melbourne – Titusville Area, and was home to 83,000 people in 2019.
Titusville
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Titusville is a city of 49,000 people along the Indian River in Brevard County, East Central Florida.
Rockledge
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Rockledge is a city of 28,000 people in Central Florida on US Route 1. Local businesses focus on technology and aerospace, especially those related to nearby Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral.
Satellite Beach
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Satellite Beach is a coastal city in Brevard County, Florida, U.S. The population was 11,226 at the 2020 United States census, up from 10,109 at the 2010 census, and it is located with the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Banana River to the west.
Merritt Island
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Merritt Island is a peninsula in Brevard County, Florida, United States, located on the eastern Florida coast, along the Atlantic Ocean. It is also the name of an unincorporated town in the central and southern parts of the island and a census-designated place.
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Melbourne Beach
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Melbourne Beach is a town in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population had 3,231 residents at the 2020 United States Census, up from 3,101 at the 2010 census.
Mims
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Mims is a city in Brevard County between Oak Hill to the northeast and Titusville to the south. Mims' northern suburb, Scottsmoor, is also covered in this article.
Canaveral National Seashore
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Canaveral National Seashore is a national seashore located in Brevard County and Volusia County in East Central Florida.
Space Coast
- Type: region
- Description: region in Florida
- Location: Florida, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
28.3° or 28° 18′ northLongitude of center
-80.7° or 80° 42′ westWikidata ID
Q2920489
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Korean—“Space Coast” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “太空海岸”
- Dutch: “Space Coast”
- French: “Space Coast”
- Galician: “Costa Espacial”
- Galician: “Space Coast”
- Hebrew: “חוף החלל”
- Hebrew: “ספייס קואוסט”
- Hebrew: “ספייס קוסט”
- Italian: “Costa spaziale”
- Japanese: “スペースコースト”
- Korean: “스페이스코스트”
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