* 1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

* 1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

Upon Kennedy's death, President Johnson issued an executive order on November 29, 1963 to rename the LOC and Cape Canaveral in honor of Kennedy.

* Mike Mars at Cape Canaveral ( vt " Mike Mars at Cape Kennedy ")

Launch of Deep Space 1 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17-A on the Delta II | Delta II 7326-9. 5 Star 37FM

* launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida

* 1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.

* 1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.

* 1963 – Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.

* 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

* 1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.

* 2005 – Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.

Although such flights are currently on hiatus, KSC continues to manage and operate unmanned rocket launch facilities for the US government's civilian space program from three pads at the adjoining Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Located on Merritt Island, Florida, the center is north-northwest of Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic Ocean, midway between Miami and Jacksonville on Florida's Space Coast.

* Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States

Odyssey was launched April 7, 2001 on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and reached Mars orbit on October 24, 2001, at 2: 30 a. m. UTC ( October 23, 7: 30 p. m. PDT, 10: 30 p. m. EDT ).

* 1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.

After launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 the protective shroud covering Mariner 4 was jettisoned and the Agena D / Mariner 4 combination separated from the Atlas D booster at 14: 27: 23 UTC on November 28, 1964.

* 1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.

* 1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.

* 1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

The collected debris of the vessel are currently stored in decommissioned missile silos at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

In July 1950 the first Bumper rocket is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

* 1964 – U. S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas / Agena combination from Point Arguello ( LC-2-3 ) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.

Trident I first launch on 18 January 1977 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station | Cape Canaveral

In 1961, a volcanic eruption forced the evacuation of the entire population via Cape Town to wooden huts in the disused Pendell Army Camp in Merstham, Surrey, England, before moving to a more permanent site at a former Royal Air Force station in Calshot near Southampton, England, living mainly in a road called Tristan Close.

Grissom was killed along with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ( then known as Cape Kennedy ), Florida.

One of two Apollo 1 memorial plaques at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34

* The dismantled Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station bears two memorial plaques: One reads, They gave their lives in service to their country in the ongoing exploration of humankind's final frontier.

One of two Apollo 1 memorial plaques at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34.

One of two Apollo 1 memorial plaques at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34.

Mariner 9 was launched toward Mars on May 30, 1971 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and reached the planet on November 14 of the same year, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet — only narrowly beating Soviet Mars 2 and Mars 3, which both arrived within a month.

Mariner 2 was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 at 06: 53: 14 UTC on August 27, 1962 by a two-stage Atlas-Agena rocket.

Mariner 3 was launched on November 5, 1964 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 13,

It was launched toward Venus on June 14, 1967 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 and flew by the planet on October 19 that year at an altitude of.

A Delta II ELV launching the Dawn ( spacecraft ) | Dawn spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 | CCAFS SLC-17

It is part of a region known as the Space Coast, and is the site of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

* John Allan Cameron, singer-songwriter, from Glencoe Station, credited as the " Godfather " of Cape Breton's modern Celtic music revival.

In 1910, Rasmussen and friend Peter Freuchen established the Thule Trading Station at Cape York ( Uummannaq ), Greenland, as a trading base.

The Spaceport Florida Launch Complex 46 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is at the tip of the cape.