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John F. Kennedy Space Center

View of Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad© Tony Conboy III
Established on July 1, 1962 as NASA's Launch Operations Center, the Kennedy Space Center was renamed in honor of the nation's 35th president, following his death. John F. Kennedy inspired and challenged the agency with his vision to land astronauts on the moon within that decade.

Since its beginning, the Kennedy Space Center has lead our nation on a history-making course bound for the unknown adventures of space. It is from this Florida soil that NASA has launched rockets, heroic astronauts and futuristic spacecraft on missions into Earth's orbit, the moon and the vast universe beyond.

Through bold success and trying tragedy the Kennedy Space Center continues today to explore all the wonders of the universe.

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