Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Space Center is a NASA spaceport on Merritt Island, Florida, that supports spacecraft processing, launch operations, and spaceflight research.

Vehicle Assembly Building: A massive Kennedy Space Center building where large launch vehicles are assembled and prepared for rollout. Launch vehicles are stacked here before moving to their launch sites.
John F. Kennedy: The 35th president of the United States, who set the national goal of landing astronauts on the Moon before 1970. The center was renamed for Kennedy after his assassination in 1963.
Crewed spaceflight: Spaceflight in which people travel aboard a spacecraft. Kennedy launches spacecraft carrying astronauts to orbit and beyond.
Wernher von Braun: A German-born American rocket engineer who led development of the Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V he helped develop launched from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39.
Apollo 11: The 1969 mission that carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the first crewed lunar landing. Its launch from Kennedy made the center synonymous with the Moon landing.
Launch Complex 39: A launch complex at Kennedy Space Center built for the Apollo program and later adapted for other launch vehicles. Its pads and support infrastructure have hosted major crewed missions.
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station: A neighboring military launch installation on Florida’s Atlantic coast, operated separately from Kennedy Space Center. Its launch pads are distinct from Kennedy’s, though missions use the same coastal spaceport region.
Uncrewed spacecraft: Spacecraft that operate without people aboard, including robotic probes and satellites. The center supports launches of robotic and scientific payloads as well as crewed missions.
Katherine Johnson: A NASA mathematician whose calculations supported early American crewed spaceflight and the Apollo program. Her trajectory analyses contributed to missions launched from the center.
STS-1: The 1981 first orbital mission of the Space Shuttle program, flown by Columbia. Its launch inaugurated Shuttle operations from Kennedy.

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