Kennedy Space Center
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers. Since December 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS). The management of the two entities work very closely together, share resources, and operate facilities on each other's property.Though the first Apollo flights and all Project Mercury and Project Gemini flights took off from the then-Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the launches were managed by KSC and its previous organization, the Launch Operations Directorate. Starting with the fourth Gemini mission, the NASA launch control center in Florida (Mercury Control Center, later the Launch Control Center) began handing off control of the vehicle to the Mission Control Center in Houston, shortly after liftoff; in prior missions it held control throughout the entire mission.
Additionally, the center manages launch of robotic and commercial crew missions and researches food production and in-situ resource utilization for off-Earth exploration. Since 2010, the center has worked to become a multi-user spaceport through industry partnerships, even adding a new launch pad (LC-39C) in 2015.
There are about 700 facilities and buildings grouped throughout the center's . Among the unique facilities at KSC are the tall Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking NASA's largest rockets, the Launch Control Center, which conducts space launches at KSC, the Operations and Checkout Building, which houses the astronauts' dormitories and suit-up area, a Space Station factory, and a long Shuttle Landing Facility. There is also a Visitor Complex on site that is open to the public. Provided by Wikipedia
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Lightning threat analysis for the Space Shuttle Launch Pad and the payload changeout room using finite difference methods by Collier, Richard S.
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Estimating the effect of sensor spacing on peak wind measurements at Launch Complex 39 by Merceret, Francis J.
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Laser shearographic inspection for debonds in sprayed on foam insulation (SOFI) by Adams, F. W.
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Oxygen consumption of tilapia and preliminary mass flows through a prototype closed aquaculture system by Muller, M. S.
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A conservation strategy for the Florida Scrub-Jay on John F. Kennedy Space Center/Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge an initial scientific basis for recovery /
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Validation of a deterministic vibroacoustic response prediction model by Caimi, Raoul E.
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Lifestyles of the Stars
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Habitat model for the Florida Scrub Jay on John F. Kennedy Space Center by Breininger, David R.
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Simulation of supersonic jet noise with the adaptation of overflow CFD code and Kirchhoff surface integral by Kandula, Max
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Peak wind forecasts for the launch-critical wind towers on Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, phase IV by Crawford, Winifred
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MesoNAM verification phase II by Watson, Leela Ramaswamy
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Weather research and forecasting model sensitivity comparisons for warm season convective initiation by Watson, Leela Ramaswamy
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1994 research reports, NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
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Dynamics of vegetation and soils of oak/saw plametto scrub after fire observations from permanent transects / by Schmalzer, Paul A.
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The Users' guide to Spacelab payload processing /
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Research reports NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program /
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Spaceport news index January 1990 - December 1994 /
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Toxic substances registry system index of material safety data sheets /
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Toxic substances registry system index of material safety data sheets /
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A computer code for gas-liquid two-phase vortex motions : GLVM / by Yeh, T. T.
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