Cape Canaveral

Up and away: An aerial view of 'Missile Row', Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 1964. The towers were used for early rocket and missile launches.

The fifteen-minute flight ended with a soft splash into the ocean about five hundred kilometers from Cape Canaveral.

Cape Canaveral launch site is an important base for the United States space launch.

Some services also may be provided to the Air Force at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Patrick Air Force Base.

Space Shuttle Atlantis hangs suspended from a sling inside the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off for the last time Friday, May 14, 2010, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

BAE Systems' Melbourne facility also supports the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. , on its first test flight.

TOWARDS the end of 2011 a large and hugely expensive robotic rover called Curiosity is due to blast off for Mars from Cape Canaveral.

Photographers gather at sunrise to take pictures of the space shuttle Endeavorin Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The flights, which could begin as early as 2015, would most likely launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida to the International Space Station.

At one time it was called Cape Canaveral. After the death of President John F. Kennedy, it was renamed Cape Kennedy in his memory.

It will be launched vertically from remodeled Apollo pads at the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

If the former, then clearly both Cape Canaveral and Houston have legitimate claims.

America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Space Shuttle Discovery is back on Earth, landing at Cape Canaveral in Florida after a 13-day mission to the International Space Station.

Photographers take images as the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off May 14, 2010 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The countdown at Cape Canaveral reached zero as Gemini Seven passed overhead.

A tail of smoke chases the space shuttle Endeavour as it lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 11, 2008.

Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida in February 2010.

Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-135 takes off near the Visitors Center at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida July 8, 2011.

This is Atlantis, launching for the last time from Cape Canaveral, as two F-15E Strike Eagles watch from the distance.

The space shuttle Discovery is prepared for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb.

THE 135th, and final, space-shuttle mission took off successfully from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 8th.

Pictured above is the second launch of the Delta IV Heavy from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA in 2007, and the first night launch.

The launch is now scheduled for 10: 02 am (1502 GMT) on Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

America's last moon mission was launched as Apollo 17 blasted off from Cape Canaveral.

The job losses will be most extensive in Texas and in Florida, home of the Kennedy Space Centre and Cape Canaveral.

Apollo 8 was launched from Cape Kennedy (Cape Canaveral) and eventually completed 10 lunar orbits.

The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off to begin mission STS-123 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida March 11, 2008.

The mission is targeted to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida between Nov. 25 and Dec.

This is about equivalent to the Chinese national anthem being played by the Americans at Cape Canaveral during a NASA launch.

A launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is expected in late 2013 or 2014.

A colorfully-lit cloud left by Space Shuttle Discovery hovers over Pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center April 5, 2010, in Cape Canaveral.

The unmanned $1. 1 billion Juno spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11. 25 am Friday.