kennedy space center - Why is the Shuttle Landing Facility runway . . . Richard Merritt, a landing support manager with United Space Alliance, says Florida's marshy terrain is the main reason it took nearly a decade to move from one coast to another Richard Merritt Landing Support Manager: We were still a research and development type of aircraft spacecraft
What is the difference between Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center? On this geographic feature Cape Canaveral is built Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Today's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is built on Merritt Island Even more confusingly, in 1963 then-President Johnson named the geographic feature Cape Kennedy and the NASA site after President John Kennedy
military - Space Exploration Stack Exchange NASA got their way, but had to leave (a lot of never used) space for future Air Force developments In 1963, the NASA Launch Operations Center, comprising the launch facilities on Merrit Island and Cape Canaveral are renamed to John F Kennedy Space Center by presidential executive order from president Lyndon B Johnson, in honor of John F
launch - From where do apps that listen to “Kennedy Space Center . . . Download a scanner app and listen to “Kennedy Space Center Communications” - at least for Shuttle launches they would broadcast some of the launch prep This suggests to me that there are audio feeds available to the public, and the app taps into them via a wireless connection But perhaps not, I don't really know what a "scanner app" is
How far is Cape Canaveral Air Force Station from Kennedy Space Center . . . Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the launch facilities at the Kennedy Space Center are close physically Google Maps says it's a 2 minute drive, but that's probably without a rocket in tow, and for some strange reason Google Street View won't let me "drive" to the Air Force's launch pads at the cape
Why was Houston selected as the location for the Manned Spacecraft Center? That includes the reason the Johnson Space Center, originally known as the Manned Spacecraft Center—was put in Houston in the first place The year that Kennedy proposed traveling to the moon, 1961, it happened that U S Senator Albert Thomas, a Democrat and protégé of Johnson’s, was the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee
launch site - Space Exploration Stack Exchange Kennedy Space Center launches have an allowable path no less than 35 degrees northeast and no greater than 120 degrees southeast These are azimuth degree readings based on due east from KSC as 90 degrees A 35-degree azimuth launch places the spacecraft in an orbital inclination of 57 degrees
How much water is used at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC)? I recall seeing LOTS of water usage on a tour of Kennedy Space Center as a kid: during launches, etc I'm looking only for a magnitude of order, so I would be satisfied with "hella" or "not much more than a fish farm" or whatever
What event determined the transfer of control from Kennedy Space Center . . . The first choice of the committee that selected the location was an Air Force base near Tampa that was about to be shuttered The committee had to reevaluate when the Air Force reneged on their decision to close the base, with what was the second choice popping to the top Cape Canaveral (now the Kennedy Space Center) was never in the picture