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Cape Canaveral

cape on the Atlantic coast of Florida in the United States

9 dated entries naming Cape Canaveral, drawn from 9 separate years between 1959 CE and 2005 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Cape Kennedy in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1959August 7 – Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.source
  • 1964November 5 – Mariner program: Mariner 3 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy but fails.source
  • 1967November 9 – Apollo program: NASA launches the first Saturn V rocket, successfully carrying the Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy into Earth orbit.source
  • 1969July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins) lifts off from Cape Kennedy in Florida towards the first crewed landing on the Moon.source
  • 1972March 2 – The Pioneer 10 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy, to be the first man-made spacecraft to leave the Solar System.source
  • 1992March 22 – STS-45: Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off from Cape Canaveral carrying instruments designed to study global warming.source
  • 1997January 17 – A Delta II rocket carrying a military GPS payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.source

21st century

  • 2003August 25 – The Spitzer Space Telescope is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.source
  • 2005January 12 – Deep Impact is launched from Cape Canaveral with the purpose of studying the comet Tempel 1.source

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