Launch Operations Center

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NASA facility launch complex spaceport

The Launch Operations Center, later renamed the Kennedy Space Center, is NASA’s primary launch complex for human spaceflight and major robotic missions on Florida’s Space Coast.

Aliases (1)

Operations and Checkout Building ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	NASA facility → launch complex → spaceport →
adjacentTo	Cape Canaveral Space Force Station →
country	United States →
environment	coastal → subtropical →
hasAbbreviation	LOC (historical, internal NASA usage) →
hasFacility	Crawlerway → Launch Complex 39 Press Site → Launch Control Center → Operations and Checkout Building → Shuttle Landing Facility → Vehicle Assembly Building →
hasLaunchPad	Launch Complex 39A → Launch Complex 39B →
hasRunway	Shuttle Landing Facility runway 15/33 →
laterRenamed	Kennedy Space Center →
locatedIn	Florida → Merritt Island →
locatedNear	Cape Canaveral →
locatedOn	Florida’s Space Coast →
manages	integration of launch vehicles and spacecraft → launch countdown operations → launch processing →
namedAfter	John F. Kennedy →
operator	NASA →
ownedBy	United States federal government →
partOf	NASA human spaceflight program → NASA’s Launch Services infrastructure → United States space program →
primaryUse	human spaceflight launches → major robotic mission launches →
region	Brevard County, Florida NERFINISHED →
renamedAs	John F. Kennedy Space Center →
supportsLaunchVehicle	Falcon 9 (via LC-39A under lease) → Falcon Heavy (via LC-39A under lease) → Saturn V → Space Launch System → Space Shuttle →
usedForProgram	Apollo program → Apollo–Soyuz Test Project → Artemis program → International Space Station missions → Skylab program → Space Shuttle program → planetary exploration missions → uncrewed lunar missions →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Kennedy Space Center →	formerlyKnownAs
Launch Operations Center ("Operations and Checkout Building") →	hasFacility