Pusat Antariksa Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) adalah fasilitas peluncuran (spaceport) wahana antariksa NASA di Cape Canaveral di Pulau Merritt di Florida, Amerika Serikat. Tempatnya berada di tengah-tengah Miami, Florida dan Jacksonville, Florida. Dia memiliki panjang 55 km dan memiliki lebar sekitar 10 km, mencakup luas wilayah 567 km². Sekitar 17.000 orang bekerja di tempat ini. Fasilitas ini memiliki pusat pengunjung dan tur publik dan KSC merupakan salah satu tujuan pariwisata utama di Florida. Karena banyak wilayah dari KSC dilarang untuk pengembangan, tempat ini juga berfungsi sebagai perlindungan satwa penting.

John F. Kennedy Space Center

Aerial view of KSC Headquarters looking south
Informasi lembaga
Dibentuk	July 1962
Nomenklatur sebelumnya	Launch Operations Directorate Launch Operations Center
Wilayah hukum	U.S. federal government
Kantor pusat	Merritt Island, Florida
Pegawai	13,500 (2008)
Anggaran tahunan	$217 million USD (2008)
Pejabat eksekutif	Robert D. Cabana, director Janet E. Petro, deputy director
Lembaga induk	NASA
Situs web	NASA KSC home page
Peta
KSC shown in white; CCAFS in green

Sekarang ini operasi dikontrol dari Kompleks Peluncuran 39, di mana terletak Gedung Perakitan Kendaraan. Enam kilometer ke timur dari gedung perakitan adalah dua pad peluncuran. Delapan kilometer ke selatan adalah Wilayah Industri KSC, di mana banyak fasilitas pendukung terletak dan kantor pusat administratif.

Kennedy Space Center hanya menjalankan operasi peluncuran di Kompleks Peluncuran 39. Seluruh operasi peluncuran lainnya dilaksanakan di Cape Canaveral Air Force Station yang dioperasikan oleh Angkatan Udara AS.

Album

• John F. Kennedy Space Center
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  B 747 SCA airplane, with Columbia on board, just before touchdown at KSC . Left you can see an T-38 Talon chase aircraft
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  Kennedy Space Center - Aerial View of Launch Complex 39
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  The STS-36 vehicle and launch platform were rolled out to Launch Pad 39A on January 25, 1990, after the shortest stay in the Vehicle Assembly Building since return-to-flight.
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  Space Shuttle Atlantis, on its Mobile Launcher Platform.
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  The Operations Support Building II at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
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  Apollo launch control at Kennedy Space Center, Florida
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  May 2008, The media fill the NASA's News Center television studio for a news conference with key NASA personnel following the successful launch of space shuttle Discovery on the STS-124 mission.
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  In the Kennedy Space Centre's Orbiter Processing Facility-1 in Florida, workers prepared space shuttle Atlantis to move from its hangar to the transfer aisle inside the nearby Vehicle Assembly Building.
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  Kennedy Space Centre, Florida - Space Shuttle Discovery launches at the beginning of STS-60, the first mission in the Shuttle-Mir programme, carrying the first Russian cosmonaut ever to fly aboard the US Shuttle.

Lihat pula

• Daftar tempat peluncuran Pulau Merritt

Bibliografi

• Benson, Charles D.; Faherty, William Barnaby (1978). Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations. Scientific and Technical Information Office, NASA. .
• Reynolds, David West (September 2006). Kennedy Space Center: Gateway to Space. Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books. ISBN 978-1554070398. Diakses tanggal January 30, 2010. 

Pranala luar

• Kennedy Space Center Web site
• KSC Visitor Complex Web site
• Streaming audio of KSC radio communications

Wikivoyage memiliki panduan wisata Cape Canaveral.

• "America's Space Program: Exploring a New Frontier", a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places lesson plan
• "Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms", a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage travel itinerary
• A Field Guide to American Spacecraft
• Kennedy Space Center Home Page
• Visitor Complex Home Page
• Astronauts Memorial Foundation Home Page
• John F. Kennedy Space Center dari Encyclopedia Astronautica
• Cape Canaveral 45th Spacewing Home Page