--- title: "Where is Kennedy Space Center Located?" description: "Where is Kennedy Space Center Located?" author: "Oasge Christiansen" published: 2018-01-09 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32701/where-is-kennedy-space-center-located category: "travel & places" tags: ["united states of america(usa)", "kennedy space center"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Where is Kennedy Space Center Located? Where is Kennedy [Space](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/341629/the-role-of-private-companies-in-the-future-of-space-exploration) [Center Located](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/114604/where-is-isro-s-primary-satellite-launch-center-located-in-india)? ## Answers ### Answer by UTKARSHA SINGHROUL The **‘Kennedy Space Centre’ is located at ‘Merritt Island’ in [Florida](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40592/to-what-cities-did-african-americans-from-florida-migrate-during-the-great-migration)**. The full name is **‘John F. Kennedy Space Centre’ and is famously known as ‘[NASA](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40403/who-becomes-the-first-indian-sikh-woman-and-second-indian-women-after-kalpana-chawla-to-be-selected-by-nasa-for-the-mars-expedition-happening-in-2030)’ (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)**. The Kennedy Space Centre **was established 56 years ago on July 1, 1962.** ![Where is Kennedy Space Center Located?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/3d90041e-d0cb-4c09-83a8-308af9cdabca/images/29e55564-d303-4b7b-8009-c37700fad8f9.jpeg) \ Kennedy Space Centre is one of the ten field centers of NASA. **KSC spreads across an area of 219 square miles (567 square kilometers) on Merritt Island, northwest of Florida's Cape Canaveral**. NASA has been serving as [America's](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51193/who-was-the-first-american-woman-in-space) spaceport and is hosting all the manned spaceflight of the federal [government's](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/218/omg-is-it-a-government-school) since the late 1960s. **Kennedy Space Centre (KSC) was named after President [John F. Kennedy](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40466/who-did-john-f-kennedy-run-against-in-the-1960-presidential-election), after he famously declared in the year 1961 that the [United States](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43428/what-empowered-black-leaders-in-the-united-states-to-organize-the-double-v-campaign-after-world-war-ii-began) will successfully send an astronaut on the moon, and bring him safely back to Earth before the decade ends.** After this bold commitment, the center ultimately succeeded in putting **Neil Armstrong and his two Apollo 11 crewmates send to moon successfully** and in returning the astronauts splashed down in the [Pacific Ocean](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35182/which-canal-connects-the-atlantic-and-pacific-oceans) on July 24, 1969. Approximately 700 facilities and buildings are grouped over across the center's 144,000 acres (580 km2). **The complex of KSC also has a visitor complex for the public to provide a site view.** As well as, the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex also provides tour facility to the visitors of the center and Cape Canaveral [Air Force Station](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51906/central-air-command-of-indian-air-force-is-situated-in) which displays a variety of exhibits, artifacts, display and attraction over the history and future of human and robotic spaceflight. --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32701/where-is-kennedy-space-center-located Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.