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16 unusual facts about Cape Canaveral


Agent K

Griffin guides Jay and Kay to Cape Canaveral, Florida where the two get assistance from a U.S. Colonel.

Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project

Some of these errors have existed since the database's creation during NASA's Apollo Program, where it was used to help produce probabilities of tropical cyclone-induced winds in critical areas such as Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral).

Attack of the Giant Leeches

It was one of a spate of monster movies produced during the 1950s in response to cold war fears; in the film, a character speculates that the leeches have been mutated to giant size by atomic radiation from nearby Cape Canaveral.

Barbie and The Sensations: Rockin' Back to Earth

At the end, after a performance at Cape Canaveral, Dr. Merrishaw helps Barbie and the Rockers return to their time.

BMRST

The system is currently operated by the Florida Air National Guard at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

Canebrake

Cape Canaveral, a town in Brevard County, Florida, or 'Canebrake', translated from the original Spanish Cañaveral

Cape Canaveral

NASA's Project Mercury and Gemini space flights were launched from Cape Canaveral, as were Apollo flights using the Saturn I and Saturn IB rockets.

Coccoloba diversifolia

Coccoloba diversifolia, commonly known as pigeonplum, doveplum, pigeon Seagrape or tietongue, is a species of the genus Coccoloba native to coastal areas of the Caribbean, Central America (Belize, Guatemala), southern Mexico, southern Florida (coastal regions from Cape Canaveral to the Florida Keys) and The Bahamas.

Department of Florida

On January 11, 1862, Key West and the coastline from Cape Canaveral to the Apalachicola River were detached from the Dept of Florida to form the Department of Key West under command of Brig. Gen. John M. Brannan, U. S. Army.

East Kentucky Broadcasting

On July 16, 1969, Walter E. May provided live coverage of the Apollo 11 launch from Cape Canaveral.

Falcon 1e

Falcon 1e launches were intended to occur from Omelek Island, part of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, and from Cape Canaveral, however SpaceX had announced that they would consider other locations as long as there is a "business case for establishing the requested launch site".

John Zarnecki

On 15 October 1997, Cassini-Huygens was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral.

Pershing Professionals Badge

The 3rd Ordnance Battalion, 59th Ordnance Brigade allowed some soldiers to wear the badge for supporting the missile launches performed at Cape Canaveral.

Thalassia testudinum

Turtle grass is found growing in meadows in calm shallow waters throughout the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and as far north as Cape Canaveral in Florida.

This is...

This is Cape Canaveral (1963) (later republished as This is Cape Kennedy) (to be republished in June 2009 under the name This is The Way to The Moon)

Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3

By contrast, Cape Canaveral has a North-South coastline permitting over-ocean launches into standard orbits.


305th Air Mobility Wing

Having later commanded the Gemini 3 mission in 1965, Lieutenant Colonel Grissom was assigned as commander for the first manned Apollo mission, but was killed with the rest of his crew during a fire in his Apollo 1 capsule during a pre-launch rehearsal on Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, Florida in January 1967.

Kieran Prendiville

He was BBC television's choice for on-site commentator of the first space shuttle mission, reporting from Cape Canaveral and Edwards Air Force Base.

Memories of the Space Age

The stories, set at Cape Canaveral, originally appeared in the magazines Ambit, Fantastic Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interzone, New Worlds and Playboy.

Moonwalk One

It was during this scouting trip to Cape Canaveral that the idea came to him to begin the film with Stonehenge, which he had seen on a sunless dawn the year before while in England shooting another film.

Paul C. Donnelly

Gilruth sent Donnelly to Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1959, where he served as a capsule (spacecraft) test conductor for all Project Mercury and Gemini launches.

Project Highwater

Project Highwater was an experiment carried out as part of two of the test flights of NASA's Saturn I launch vehicle (using battleship upper stages), successfully launched into a sub-orbital trajectory from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

SpaceX launch facilities

SpaceX currently has two launch facilities in use for the Falcon 9, one at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and a second one near Lompoc, California used for the first flight of the Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket in the fall of 2013.

SpaceX has used two launch facilities for Falcon 9 launches through 2013, one at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and a second one near Lompoc, California used for the first flight of the Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket in September 2013.