cape canaveral

İngilizce - İngilizce

cape canaveral teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı: a cape in Florida which is famous for the Kennedy Space Center, where US spacecraft are sent into space. Cape Canaveral was formerly called Cape Kennedy. Cape, eastern Florida, U.S. It is the location of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center and the launch site of U.S. spaceflights, which included the first U.S. manned spaceflight (1961), the first lunar-landing flight (1969), and flights of the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded shortly after liftoff in 1986. After the death of Pres. John F. Kennedy in 1963, it was renamed Cape Kennedy; it reverted to its original name in 1973; a sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight

cape canaveral