Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral, also known as Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, is a cape in Brevard County, Florida, United States, located on the Atlantic coast. It is one of the most historic and well-known launch sites for spacecraft in the world. The area is managed by the United States Air Force as part of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and is adjacent to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The name "Cape Canaveral" comes from the Spanish Cabo Cañaveral, meaning "Cape Canebrake" or "Cape Reed." In Hebrew, it is known as מישור קייפ קנברל (Mishor Keip Kanveral). The cape is located approximately 35 miles (56 km) east of Orlando. It has been the launch site for many significant space missions, including the first American satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958, and the first crewed spaceflight by an American, Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 mission in 1961. The site continues to be a primary launch location for both government and commercial space missions.

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Cape Canaveral

Cape on the Atlantic coast of Florida in the United States

Cape Canaveral is a cape in Brevard County, Florida, in the United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast. Officially Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River. It is part of a region known as the Space Coast, and is the site of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Since many U.S. spacecraft have been launched from both the station and the Kennedy Space Center on adjacent Merritt Island, the two are sometimes conflated with each other.

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