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Cape Canaveral, the Glossary

Cape Canaveral (Cabo Cañaveral) is a cape in Brevard County, Florida, in the United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast.^[1]

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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Headlands of Florida
Indian River Lagoon
Kennedy Space Center

Ais people

The Ais or Ays were a Native American people of eastern Florida.

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Anno Domini

The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas

Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549 – 28 March 1626 or 27 March 1625) was a chronicler, historian, and writer of the Spanish Golden Age, author of Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano que llaman Indias Occidentales ("General History of the Deeds of the Castilians on the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea Known As the West Indies"), better known in Spanish as Décadas and considered one of the best works written on the conquest of the Americas.

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Apollo program

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first men on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.

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Archaic period (North America)

In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.

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Area code 321

Area code 321 is the area code serving Brevard County, Florida, Space Coast Region and Seminole County, Florida.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Álvaro Mexía

Alvaro Mexia was a 17th-century Spanish explorer and cartographer of the east coast of Florida.

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Banana River

The Banana River is a lagoon that lies between Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida in the United States. Cape Canaveral and Banana River are Indian River Lagoon.

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Belle Glade culture

The Belle Glade culture, or Okeechobee culture, is an archaeological culture that existed from as early as 1000 BCE until about 1700 CE in the area surrounding Lake Okeechobee and in the Kissimmee River valley in the Florida Peninsula.

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Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833March 13, 1901) was an American politician who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893.

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Brevard County, Florida

Brevard County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Canaveral National Seashore

The Canaveral National Seashore (CANA) is a National Seashore located between New Smyrna Beach and Titusville, Florida, in Volusia and Brevard Counties. Cape Canaveral and Canaveral National Seashore are Beaches of Florida.

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Cape (geography)

In geography, a cape is a headland, peninsula or promontory extending into a body of water, usually a sea.

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Cape Canaveral Light

The Cape Canaveral Light is a historic lighthouse on the east coast of the U.S. state of Florida. Cape Canaveral and Cape Canaveral Light are cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.

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Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 46

The Space Launch Complex 46 (SLC-46), previously Launch Complex 46 (LC-46), is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station operated under license by Space Florida previously used for Athena rocket launches. Cape Canaveral and Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 46 are cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

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Cape Canaveral, Florida

Cape Canaveral is a city in Brevard County, Florida. Cape Canaveral and Cape Canaveral, Florida are Beaches of Florida.

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Central Florida

Central Florida is a region of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Conflation

Conflation is the merging of two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, or opinions into one, often in error.

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Countdown

A countdown is a sequence of backward counting to indicate the time remaining before an event is scheduled to occur.

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Downrange

Downrange, or down range, is the horizontal distance traveled by a spacecraft, or the spacecraft's horizontal distance from the launch site.

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Dry Tortugas National Park

Dry Tortugas National Park is an American national park located about west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States. Cape Canaveral and Dry Tortugas National Park are Beaches of Florida.

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Encyclopedia Astronautica

The Encyclopedia Astronautica is a reference web site on space travel.

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Equator

The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

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Executive order

In the United States, an executive order is a directive by the president of the United States that manages operations of the federal government.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Florida Legislature

The Florida Legislature is the legislature of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Fort Caroline

Fort Caroline was an attempted French colonial settlement in Florida, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in present-day Duval County.

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From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes (De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne.

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Geographical renaming

Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area, which ranges from the change of a street name to a change to the name of a country.

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Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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HGM-25A Titan I

The Martin Marietta SM-68A/HGM-25A Titan I was the United States' first multistage intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), in use from 1959 until 1962.

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Homestead Acts

The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.

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Houdaille Industries

Houdaille Industries was a diversified manufacturing company which produced automotive products, industrial products, machine tools, construction materials and contracting.

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Indian River (Florida)

The Indian River is a long brackish lagoon in Florida. Cape Canaveral and Indian River (Florida) are Indian River Lagoon.

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Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American writer, book editor, and socialite who served as the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of former president John F. Kennedy.

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Jean Ribault

Jean Ribault (also spelled Ribaut) (1520 – October 12, 1565) was a French naval officer, navigator, and a colonizer of what would become the southeastern United States.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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John Hawkins (naval commander)

Admiral Sir John Hawkins (also spelled Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 November 1595) was an English naval commander, naval administrator, privateer and slave trader.

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Juan Ponce de León

Juan Ponce de León (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Puerto Rico in 1508 and Florida in 1513.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Kennedy family

The Kennedy family (Ó Cinnéide) is an American political family that has long been prominent in American politics, public service, entertainment, and business.

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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.

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List of colonial governors of Florida

The colonial governors of Florida governed Florida during its colonial period (before 1821).

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

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Maritime passenger terminal

A passenger terminal is a structure in a port which services passengers boarding and leaving water vessels such as ferries, cruise ships and ocean liners.

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Mercury-Atlas 9

Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) on the Atlantic coast of Florida's largest barrier island.

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Merritt Island, Florida

Merritt Island is a peninsula, commonly referred to as an island, in Brevard County, Florida, United States, located on the eastern Florida coast, along the Atlantic Ocean.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Mosquito Lagoon

Mosquito Lagoon is a body of water located on the east coast of Florida in Brevard and Volusia counties. Cape Canaveral and Mosquito Lagoon are Indian River Lagoon.

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Mount Taylor period

The Mount Taylor period or Mount Taylor culture was a pre-ceramic archaeological culture in northeastern Florida in the middle to late Archaic period.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.

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Orange period

The Orange period or Orange culture was a late-Archaic archaeological culture along the eastern side of the Florida peninsula, from about 4,000 years ago to about 2,500 or 3,000 years ago.

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Orlando Sentinel

The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida, and the Central Florida region, in the United States.

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Pedro de Ibarra

Pedro de Ibarra was a Spanish general who served as a Royal Governor of Spanish Florida (1603 – 1610).

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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (Pedro (Menéndez) d'Avilés; 15 February 1519 – 17 September 1574) was a Spanish admiral, explorer and conquistador from Avilés, in Asturias, Spain.

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Plantation

Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on.

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Port Canaveral

Port Canaveral is a cruise, cargo, and naval port in Brevard County, Florida, United States.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Project Gemini

Project Gemini was the second United States human spaceflight program to fly.

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Project Mercury

Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.

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Reed bed

A reedbed or reed bed is a natural habitat found in floodplains, waterlogged depressions and estuaries.

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RTV-G-4 Bumper

The RTV-G-4 Bumper was a sounding rocket built by the United States.

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Saturn I

The Saturn I was a rocket designed as the United States' first medium lift launch vehicle for up to low Earth orbit payloads.

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Saturn IB

The Saturn IB(also known as the uprated Saturn I) was an American launch vehicle commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the Apollo program.

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Skylab

Skylab was the United States' first space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral

Also known as Cabo Canaveral, Cape Cañaveral (place), Cape Carnival, Cape Kennedy, Cape Kennedy, FL, Cape Kennedy, Florida, Cape carnaval.

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See also

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Headlands of Florida

Indian River Lagoon

Kennedy Space Center

References