Kennedy Space Center
About Kennedy Space Center
The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the ten field centers of NASA. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS). The management of the two entities work very closely together, share resources, and operate facilities on each other's property.
On the show — 4 mentions total
When the moon landing happened, there was a protest in America at the same time by 25 African American families who walked to Kennedy Space Center, because they said it was a distorted sense of national priorities that America was going to the moon.
from 521: No Such Thing As A Human-Sized Peanut, 2024-03-07 at 00:37:49 · read transcript
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No. Did they attach balloons to it and float it around? No. They use barges. They have a barge called Pegasus. They load the rocket on. Because it's from the assembly factory is in Louisiana. They need to get it to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It's 100 meters long. They just load the rocket on. Then it doesn't have an engine. The tugs have to just tug it all the way.
No Such Thing As A Venetian Barge, 2025-04-03 · listen
No, they use barges. They have a barge called Pegasus. Okay. They load the rocket on because it's from the assembly factories in Louisiana and they need to get it to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It's a hundred meters long and they just load the rocket on and then it doesn't have an engine. The tugs have to just tug it all the way. How far are those two places apart?
577: No Such Thing As A Venetian Barge, 2025-04-03 · listen
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