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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
FLORIDA, USA
One of ten NASA field centres, the Kennedy Space Center officially opened on 26 May 1965 and is a historic site for any space travel fan. The site was acquired when it was discovered that the home of America’s space missions up to that point, Cape Canaveral, was not big enough to support a rocket large enough to put a man on the Moon. Since then it has been the launch site for all manned US space flights, including such famous missions as Apollo and Skylab.
Following the popularity of the Mercury space programme,