NASA Photo ID: STS030-151-025 File Name: 10063325.jpg
Film Type: 4x5 Date Taken: 05/08/89
Title: Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Description:
This overhead view of the central eastern shore of Florida shows the Cape
Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center (28.5N, 80.5W), where all of the NASA
manned space missions originate. Sprinkled along the jutting cape are a
number of KSC launch pads and the nearby Space Shuttle Landing Facility.
Merritt Island, just south of Kennedy Space Center is where the spacecraft
liftoff tracking station is located. Orlando is on the left edge of photo.
Subject terms:
CAPE KENNEDY LAUNCH COMPLEX
EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE)
FLORIDA
OCEANS
PENINSULAS
RIVERS
STS-30
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