Cape Canaveral
and adjacent Merritt Island
on Florida
's Atlantic
coast are home to two American
spaceports, one civilian and one military,
servicing several active launch
sites.
John F. Kennedy Space Center
The
civilian John F. Kennedy Space Center
, operated by NASA
, has one
launch complex with two pads on Merritt Island. From
1968–1975, it was the site of 11
Saturn V
launches, three manned
Skylab flights and the
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project;
and starting in 1981, all
Space
Shuttle flights. Both pads will be converted for
Project Constellation after Shuttle is
retired in 2010.
- Launch
Complex 39A
, active: Space Shuttle; future: Ares V (primary) and Ares I
(backup); prior: Saturn V (primary)
- Launch
Complex 39B
, active: Ares I (primary); future: Ares V
(backup); prior: Saturn V, Saturn IB
(Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz), Space Shuttle
- Launch Complex 39C, planned but never built, Saturn V
- Launch Complex 39D, considered but never built, Nova
- Launch Complex 39E, considered but never built, Nova
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
The
military Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station
(CCAFS), operated by the 45th Space Wing of the U.S. Air Force,
was the site of all pre-Apollo 8
manned launches, as well as many other early Department of
Defense
(DoD) and NASA launches. For the DoD, it plays
a secondary role to Vandenberg AFB
in California
, but is the launch site for many NASA unmanned
space probes, as those spacecraft are
typically launched on Air
Force launchers. Active launch vehicles are in
bold.
Much of
the support activity for CCAFS occurs at Patrick Air
Force Base
to the south, its reporting base.

Looking south along "missile row" at
Cape Canaveral in the 1960s
- Launch Complex 1
, inactive, Snark,
Matador, Aerostat
- Launch Complex 2
, inactive, Snark,
Matador, Aerostat
- Launch Complex
3, inactive, Bumper-WAC,
BOMARC, Polaris, X-17,
- Launch Complex 4
, inactive, BOMARC, Redstone, Matador, Jason,
Draco
- Launch Complex 4A
, inactive, BOMARC
- Launch Complex 5
, inactive, Jupiter,
Redstone, Mercury/Redstone The site of all six manned and
unmanned Mercury/Redstone launches.
- Launch Complex 6
, inactive, Redstone, Jupiter.
- Launch Complex 9
, inactive, Navaho
- Launch Complex 10
, inactive, Jason,
Draco, Nike
Tomahawk
- Launch Complex 11
, inactive, Atlas
- Launch Complex 12
, inactive, Atlas,
Atlas Agena
- Launch Complex 13
, inactive, Atlas,
Atlas Agena
- Launch Complex 14
, inactive, Atlas,
Mercury/Atlas D, Atlas
Agena. The site of all four manned Mercury/Atlas
launches.
- Launch Complex 15
, inactive, Titan I, Titan II
- Launch Complex 16
, inactive, Titan I, Titan II, Pershing
- Space Launch Complex 17A
, active, Thor,
Delta II
- Space Launch Complex 17B
, active, Thor,
Delta II, Delta III
- Launch Complex 18
, inactive, Viking,
Vanguard, Thor, Blue Scout
Junior, Blue Scout
- Launch Complex 19
, inactive, Titan I, Gemini/Titan
II. The site of all ten manned Gemini/Titan II
launches.
- Launch Complex 20
, inactive, Titan I, Titan III, Starbird,
Prospector, Aries, LCLV,
Super Loki
- Launch Complex 21
, inactive, Goose,
Mace
- Launch
Complex 22, inactive, Goose,
Mace
- Launch
Complex 25, inactive, Polaris,
X-17, Poseidon, Trident
I
- Launch Complex 26
, inactive, Jupiter,
Redstone. Launch site of
Explorer 1 - the first successful U.S.
satellite
- Launch
Complex 29, inactive, Polaris
- Launch
Complex 30, inactive, Pershing
- Launch Complex 31
, inactive, Minuteman, Pershing. Used as a burial vault for
the Space Shuttle Challenger
- Launch
Complex 32, inactive, Minuteman
- Launch Complex 34
, inactive, Saturn I,
Saturn IB. Site of Apollo 1 fire.

Looking east at LC-36, 40 and 41 on
CCAFS in 2005
- Space Launch Complex 36A
, inactive, Atlas/Centaur, Atlas
II.
- Space Launch Complex 36B
, inactive, Atlas,
Atlas II, Atlas
III.
- Launch Complex 37A
, inactive, unused.
- Space Launch Complex 37B
, active, Saturn I,
Saturn IB, Delta IV
- Space Launch Complex 40
, inactive, Titan III,
Titan IV, future site for Falcon 9.
- Space Launch Complex 41
, active, Titan
III, Titan IV, Atlas V
- Launch Complex 43
, inactive, Super
Loki
- Launch
Complex 45, inactive, Roland
- Launch Complex 46
, inactive, Trident
II, Athena
- Launch
Complex 47, active, Super Loki
Other
- Atlantic Missile Range
drop zone,
inactive, High Virgo, Bold Orion, Hound
Dog, Skybolt
- Grand Turk Island
drop
zone, inactive
- Mobile Launch
Area, inactive, Lark, Matador, MX-775,
Snark
- SLBM Launch
Area, inactive, Polaris, Poseidon, Trident
- Shuttle Landing Facility
, active, Pegasus
- Cape
Canaveral AFS Skid Strip
, active, Navaho, Pegasus, Pegasus XL
- Patrick AFB
, inactive, Matador
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