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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Beyond Earth's Boundaries
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All Aboard for Space
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A wind tunnel study on the Mars Pathfinder (MPF) lander descent pressure sensor
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Rationales for the Lightning Flight-Commit Criteria
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Weather research and forecasting model wind sensitivity study at Edwards Air Force Base, CA by Watson, Leela Ramaswamy
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Acoustical and flowfield characterization of a scaled tabletop rocket
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A method for predicting service life of zinc rich primers on carbon steel by Hoppesch, Charles W.
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Debris/ice/TPS assessment and integrated photographic analysis of shuttle mission STS-102 by Rivera, Jorge E.
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Comparison of analytical methods for calculation of wind loads by Minderman, Donald J.
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Debris/ice/TPS assessment and photographic analysis for shuttle mission STS-36 by Stevenson, Charles G.
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30 WS north base wind study by Wheeler, Mark
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Soil, groundwater, surface water, and sediments of Kennedy Space Center, Florida background chemical and physical characteristics /
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Debris/ice/TPS assessment and integrated photographic analysis of shuttle mission STS-97 by Rivera, Jorge E.
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The physiological cost of wearing the propellant handler's ensemble at the Kennedy Space Center by Schonfeld, Brian R.
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America's spaceport : John F. Kennedy Space Center.
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Lightning and the space program.
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Apollo 16.
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Statistical short-range forecast guidance for cloud ceilings over the shuttle landing facility by Lambert, Winifred C.
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System development and early biological tests in NASA's biomass production chamber
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Utilization of the water soluble fraction of wheat straw as a plant nutrient source by Garland, J. L.
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