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Kennedy Space Center

US space launch site in Florida
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Kennedy Space Center
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Summary

Kennedy Space Center is a NASA facility[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of nasa facility entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,664 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Brevard County[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: spaceport[5], research institute[6], Moonport[7]
  • Operator: National Aeronautics and Space Administration[8]
  • Named after: John F. Kennedy[9]
  • Part of: Eastern Range[10]
  • Commons category: Kennedy Space Center[11]
  • Located in time zone: Eastern Time Zone[12]
  • Has part(s): Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39[13], Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 48[14], Launch and Landing Facility[15]
  • Inception: March 7, 1962[16]
  • Located in/on physical feature: Merritt Island[17]
  • Parent organization or unit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration[18]
  • Official website: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html[19], https://www.nasa.gov/kennedy/[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Kennedy Space Center[21]
  • Director / manager: Janet Petro[22]
  • Topic has template: Template:Kennedy Space Center[23]
  • Different from: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station[24]
  • Elevation above sea level: 3 m[25]
  • Hashtag: KennedySpaceCenter[26]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]
  • Social media followers: 1,934,093[28]

Why It Matters

Kennedy Space Center has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Related Entities

Apollo 13 John F. Kennedy research institute Robert Crippen United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . orlandosentinel.com. orlandosentinel.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 77
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'ceb', 'ck
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||4 */ Cleanup: remove self_stated_in refs; remove empty end time qualifiers ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  2. 10w ago · Huntster · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap relation id → 8013130
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Openstreetmap relation id: 8013130"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4Alczq
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → kennedy-space-center
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: kennedy-space-center, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289945303|kennedy space center (#289945303)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/79"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0399821-John-F-Kennedy-Space-Center
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0399821-John-F-Kennedy-Space-Center, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  6. 24w ago · Sbb1413 · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gran enciclopèdia catalana id (former scheme) → —
    Has part(s) → —
    Archinform location id → 30614
    Viaf id → —
    + 153 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: Moonport"
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