. Kennedy Space Center
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he John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida is the spaceport of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The center has been the hub of U. S. space exploration since the 1960s. From the space center, NASA launched some of the most historic missions of the space age. Today, the Kennedy Space Center is the base for Space Shuttle missions and is also home to the Constellation Program-a plan to build a
new generation of spacecraft to take astronauts to the Moon and Mars.