Astronomy: Cape Canaveral NASA

Cape Canaveral or also called Kennedy Space Center is America's largest orbital launch site, used for all manned launches.

It consits of:

the commercial Spaceport Florida;

the air-launched launch vehicle Drop Zone off Mayport Flordia;

Kennedy Space Center used for Saturn V and space shuttle launches;

Cape Canaveral itself, operated by the US Department of Defence and handling most other launches.

In the background the Vehicle Assembly Building

Closer to the Vehicle Assembly Building

Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building

<< previous page