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Cape Canaveral

(kă-nav -ĕ-răl) See Kennedy Space Center.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Cape Canaveral

 

a cape on the east coast of the Florida peninsula, USA, composed of sandspits. The cape is the site of the J. F. Kennedy Space Center, which tests missiles and launches spacecraft.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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