Cape Canaveral Timeline of Events

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Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral, from the Spanish Cabo Cañaveral, is a headland in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast. Known as Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River.It is part of a region known as the Space Coast, and is the site of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...

Timeline of Events

1957

12.17.1957

The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1962

10.3.1962

Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.

1965

12.15.1965

Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.

1969

7.16.1969

Apollo program: ''Apollo 11'', the first manned space mission to land on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1972

3.2.1972

The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.

1997

10.15.1997

The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

2005

1.12.2005

Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.