Canaveral, Cape

Cape, eastern Florida, U.S. It is the location of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center and the launch site of U.S. spaceflights, which included the first U.S. manned spaceflight (1961), the first lunar-landing flight (1969), and flights of the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded shortly after liftoff in 1986. After the death of Pres. John F. Kennedy in 1963, it was renamed Cape Kennedy; it reverted to its original name in 1973.

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• Cape Canaveral, a headland in Brevard County, Florida, USA which is the site of the Kennedy Space Center
• Cape Canaveral, Florida, a city in Brevard County, Florida, USA
• Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
• Cape Canaveral Light, lighthouse on Cape Canaveral
• Canaveral Groves, Florida, a community in Brevard County, Florida, USA
• Canaveral National Seashore, a national seashore in Brevard County, Florida, USA
• "Canaveral", a song by Shellac from their 2000 album 1000 Hurts
• "canaveral" is a word for canebrake (from Spanish cañaveral = "canebrake")