The program laid the foundation for NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center.

Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12: 54 PM EST on 16 April 1972, the mission lasted eleven days, one hour, and fifty-one minutes, and concluded at 2: 45 PM EST on 27 April.

Apollo 16 launches from the Kennedy Space Center on 16 April 1972.

The Apollo 16 mission successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12: 54 PM EST on 16 April 1972.

After successful parachute deployment and less than fourteen minutes after reentry began, the Command Module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Christmas Island 290 hours, 37 minutes, 6 seconds after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center.

In July 2011, after returning the piece of debris at NASA's request, the sixteen-year-old Schanze was given an all-access tour of the Kennedy Space Center as well as VIP seating for the launch of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program.

It launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 29 July 1985, and landed just under eight days later on 6 August.

The orbiter arrived back at Kennedy Space Center on 11 August 1985.

When it comes to the world's largest door, there is not just one, in fact there are four and they all belong to NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.

* 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.

Ray Wheeler, plant physiologist at Kennedy Space Center ’ s Space Life Science Lab, believes that hydroponics will create advances within space travel.

The US was well behind the Soviet Union in the Space Race, so President Kennedy increased the stakes with the Apollo Program, which used Saturn rocket technology that had been funded by Eisenhower.

* 1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.

* 1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.

* 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

* 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.

* 1986 – Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Mission Specialist.

* 1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.

The American Film Institute operated the National Film Theatre in Washington D. C .' s Kennedy Center until 1998.

Prior to Kennedy Center, it screened films in the auditorium of the National Gallery of Art.

* Kennedy Center Honors 1985

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The General Social Survey from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago and the Saguaro Seminar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University are examples of national community development in the United States.

Day did not accept an invitation to be a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors for the same reason.

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His death came just five days before Lucille Ball received the Kennedy Center Honors.

* Kennedy Center Honor ( 1984 )

Sinatra was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.

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He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors, and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute ; in 1999, the American Film Institute also numbered him 15th in their Greatest Male Stars of All Time list.

* 1982 – Lifetime Achievement Award in the fifth annual Kennedy Center Honors.

Hopewell Center stands on the slope of a hill so steep that the building has its back entrance on the 17th floor towards Kennedy Road.

* 2001 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards-Best Supporting Character: Jordan Kennedy

* 2002 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards-Best Female Character: Jordan Kennedy

Mrs. Kennedy liked the design, but resistance began in Cambridge, the first proposed site for the building, as soon as the project was announced.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) is the United States launch site that has been used for every NASA human space flight since 1968.

The stadium was the site of Super Bowl VIII and a speech by John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1962 in which he challenged the nation to send a man to the moon by the end of the decade.

Since many U. S. spacecraft are launched from both the station and the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, the terms " Cape Canaveral ," " Canaveral ", or " the Cape " have become metonyms that refer to both as the launch site of spacecraft.

Persistent site technical problems, however, and a joint decision by the Air Force and NASA to consolidate Shuttle operations at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the Challenger tragedy in 1986, resulted in the official termination of the Shuttle program at Vandenberg on December 26, 1989.

The first NASA launch facility there ( Launch Complex 39 ) was designed and operated by MSFC, then in on July 1, 1962, the overall site achieving equal status with other NASA centers and was named the Launch Operations Center, later renamed the Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ).

Located south of Lexington, it is the site of the Kennedy House, said to have been used in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

By 1964, he had contracts to guard the Kennedy Space Center and the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear test site in Nevada.

His father, Robert Drudge, a former social worker who owns the reference site www. refdesk. com, and his mother, a former staff attorney for U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy, divorced when he was six.

Sub-assemblies for the bridge were constructed onshore and then shifted by a large tracked vehicle ( similar to that used to move the Apollo and Space Shuttle at Cape Kennedy ) onto a barge, prior to being floated out on the high tide to the appropriate site.

The west-side runways, also known as Runway 18L / 36R and Runway 18R / 36L, were designed to accommodate B-52 Stratofortress bombers and due to their proximity to NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, were an obvious choice for an emergency landing should an emergency " return to launch site ( RTLS ) attempt to land at KSC fall short.

One episode, " Face to Face " -- about a planned first landing on the moon -- refers to " Cape Kennedy " as the launch site, placing the broadcast between 1964 ( when Cape Canaveral was renamed Cape Kennedy ) and 1969 ( the actual first moon landing ).

Hotel Aspinwall in 1912, now the site of Kennedy Park

The 7-day, 23-hour, 15-minute, 55-second flight ended on 11 February 1984, at 7: 15 am EST ; at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility – the first landing of a spacecraft at its launch site.

Stationed here are: The First and Fourth battalions of the 3rd U. S. Infantry Regiment, ( The Old Guard ) — and since August 2011, ' A ' Company ( Commander in Chief's Guard ), which was stationed at Fort McNair, D. C ; The U. S. Army Band “ Pershing's Own ”; The grave site of Black Jack, the riderless horse in the state funerals of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and U. S. Presidents John F. Kennedy, Herbert Hoover and Lyndon B. Johnson, is located on Summerall Field, northeast of the parade ground's flagpole.

Until 1888, due to the church on the Staunton Street had become very crowded, it was moved to the current site on Kennedy Road.

The Space Coast is a region in the U. S. state of Florida around Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ), where NASA launched Space Shuttles until the last one on July 8, 2011 at 11: 29 a. m .; and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, site of unmanned civilian and military space launches.

The Kennedy family were the pioneers who first took up the property known as Mary's Creek Run, the station which surrounded the site of the town of Jerilderie.

The Rose Kennedy Greenway is now located on the former site of the Central Artery.

The name Foggy Bottom often is used as a metonym for the United States Department of State because its headquarters is in the neighborhood, as are the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ; Friendship Lodge Odd Fellows Hall ; and the infamous Watergate complex, site of the Watergate burglaries which led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

57, No. 32, August 12, 2005 issue, pp. 1, 3 .</ ref > Due to the poor weather at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, the shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, a secondary landing site.

As Director of the Kennedy Space Center for over six years, Bridges was responsible for managing NASA's only site for processing and launch of the Space Shuttle vehicle ; processing the payloads flown on both the Shuttle and expendable launch vehicles ; and overseeing expendable vehicle launches carrying NASA payloads.

In the 1950s, the World Bank considered building its international headquarters here and on the adjacent site ( which now houses the Kennedy Center ), but rejected the site for unspecified reasons in favor of its current location at 1818 H Street NW in Washington, D. C.