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.

After more than twenty organizations submitted proposals to NASA for the display of an orbiter, NASA announced that Enterprise will go to New York's Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, Discovery will go the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum, Atlantis will remain in the Visitor Complex at Kennedy Space Center, and Endeavour will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles ,.

* Grissom is named with his fellow Apollo 1 crewmates on the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.

Having died in the line of duty for NASA, Carter's name was added to the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Merritt Island, Florida.

JVC made headlines as the first-ever corporate partner of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

On April 12, 2006, Young appeared at the 25th anniversary of the STS-1 launch at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, along with pilot Robert Crippen.

Franklin Chang Díaz was inducted into the NASA Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 5, 2012 in a ceremony that took place the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

He also makes a public appearance occasionally to sign memorabilia at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and also appears for the complex's " Lunch with an Astronaut " program.

Kevin Chilton was inducted into the NASA Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 5th, 2012 in a ceremony that took place the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Bassett is honored at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center's Space Mirror Memorial, alongside 24 other NASA astronauts who died in the pursuit of space exploration.

* 1995 – Delaware North wins the contract to run the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

The company now operates at other venues including Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls State Park, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and Gideon Putnam Resort ( among others ).

The Space Mirror Memorial, also known as the Astronaut Memorial, is a memorial on the grounds of the John F. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Merritt Island, Florida.

It was built in Apopka, Florida by Guard-Lee and installed at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in 1993.

Explorer was displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex atop cement pilings and secured with steel cabling.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will construct a new building to display the retired shuttle Atlantis.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the visitor center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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* At the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex the Saturn V display is made up of S-IC-T ( static test stage ) and the second and third stages from SA-514.

The last complete, unflown Saturn IB, SA-209, kept on standby for a possible Skylab Rescue mission, is on display in the Rocket Garden of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, topped by an Apollo boilerplate in place of the rescue spacecraft.

* The Skylab Rescue CSM-119 is on display at the Apollo / Saturn V Center at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.