Spaceports, ranges and pads
Kennedy Space Center
The NASA field center on Merritt Island, converted into a multiuser spaceport whose pads, processing buildings and runway are leased to commercial tenants [NASAKSC][FS331304][WKSC].
- Entity type
- NASA field center and multiuser spaceport
- Kind
- facility, site or pad
- Lane
- Spaceports, ranges and pads
- Place
- Merritt Island, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1962
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1962 · 1962: Kennedy Space Center statutory component of Cape Canaveral Spaceport (1962 onward)
- Role
- NASA field center and multiuser spaceport
- Cutoff status
- Operating
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. Multiuser spaceport hosting commercial tenants alongside NASA programs.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Statutory territory
- Brevard
- Legal basis
- s. 331.304(1), F.S.
- Statutory status
- within the s. 331.304(1) territory
- Operational status
- operating NASA field center and multiuser spaceport
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 5
- Betweenness
- 0.0972 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [NASAKSC] [FS331304] [WKSC]
Connections
Property, facility and development
- occupies under agreement ←BoeingBoeing builds Starliner in the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at Kennedy under an agreement with Space Florida finalized on 22 October 2013; NASA grants Space Florida, not Boeing, a 15 year use permit for the building [BOEC3PF] [NASAOPF3]2013 onward
- operates site ←1962
Legal designation and public authority
- statutory component of →Cape Canaveral Spaceportthe statute names the NASA center within the portion referred to as the Cape Canaveral Spaceport [FS331304]1962 onward
Research, education and workforce
- mou with ←Florida University Space Research Consortiummemorandum of understanding with the center signed 8 January 2025 [SFCON] [NASAKSC]2025
Person role
- directs ←2021 onward