What is Cape Canaveral known as?

Name changes It was Port Canaveral from 1954 to 1962, and then the City of Cape Canaveral from 1962 to 1963, when a larger post office was built. In 1963, President Lyndon Johnson issued an executive order renaming the area Cape Kennedy, after President John F. Kennedy, who had set the goal of landing on the Moon.



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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), a military base utilized by both the Navy and Airforce for defense and strategic operations has played a key role in the development of the space program and missile testing in the United States.

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Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León visited Cape Canaveral in 1513. Until after World War II the cape was a stretch of barren, sandy scrubland. In 1950, missile testing began there, and in 1958, after NASA was formed, the agency made the cape the basis of its operations for space exploration.

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Normally takes less than 45 minutes, that's 45.6 mile, to ride our shuttles from MCO to the terminals at Port Canaveral to board your cruise ship. Our transportation service provides a clean, air conditioned and professionally driven sedans, van, SUV's, limousines, mini-buses and coach buses.

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