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rdfs:label
  • Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
rdfs:comment
  • A number of American space exploration "firsts" were launched from CCAFS, including the first U.S. Earth satellite (1958), first U.S. astronaut (1961), first U.S. astronaut in orbit (1962), first two-man U.S. spacecraft (1965), first U.S. unmanned lunar landing (1966), and first three-man U.S. spacecraft (1968). It was also the launch site for all of the first spacecraft to (separately) fly past each of the planets in the Solar System (1962–1977), the first spacecraft to orbit Mars (1971) and roam its surface (1996), the first American spacecraft to orbit and land on Venus (1978), the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn (2004), and to orbit Mercury (2011), and the first spacecraft to leave the Solar System (1977).
owl:sameAs
long degrees
  • 80
dcterms:subject
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lat minutes
  • 29
latd
  • 28
longs
  • 40
Built
  • 1950
Partof
designated nrhp type
  • 1984-04-16
long seconds
  • 40
latm
  • 29
longm
  • 34
open to public
  • No
Events
Country
  • United States
Name
  • 80
  • "The Cape "
  • Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
  • Cape Canaveral Air Force Station 200 px
  • Part of Air Force Space Command
Type
  • Air Force Base
lats
  • 20
longEW
  • W
locmapin
  • Florida
nrhp type
  • nhld
pushpin map
  • Florida
long direction
  • W
Title
  • Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard, FL
refnum
  • 84003872
added
  • 1984-04-16
Governing body
  • U.S. Department of Defense
Operator
latNS
  • N
Ownership
  • U.S. Department of Defense
nocat
  • yes
used
  • 1948
survey
  • FL-8-5
Image
  • Air Force Space Command.png
Nearest Town
longd
  • 80
ID
  • fl0457
  • gov.archives.arc.69591
lat seconds
  • 20
long minutes
  • 34
Website
controlledby
  • 45
lat degrees
  • 28
visitation num
  • Not open to the public
lat direction
  • N
Location
  • Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States
abstract
  • A number of American space exploration "firsts" were launched from CCAFS, including the first U.S. Earth satellite (1958), first U.S. astronaut (1961), first U.S. astronaut in orbit (1962), first two-man U.S. spacecraft (1965), first U.S. unmanned lunar landing (1966), and first three-man U.S. spacecraft (1968). It was also the launch site for all of the first spacecraft to (separately) fly past each of the planets in the Solar System (1962–1977), the first spacecraft to orbit Mars (1971) and roam its surface (1996), the first American spacecraft to orbit and land on Venus (1978), the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn (2004), and to orbit Mercury (2011), and the first spacecraft to leave the Solar System (1977).
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