John F. Kennedy Space Center | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 27/12/2018

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:02:49 1 Formation
00:06:10 2 Location
00:07:47 3 Historical programs
00:07:58 3.1 Apollo program
00:09:20 3.2 Skylab
00:10:05 3.3 Space Shuttle
00:15:37 3.4 Constellation
00:16:02 3.5 Expendable launch vehicles (ELVs)
00:20:41 3.6 Space station processing
00:22:40 4 Current programs and initiatives
00:23:51 5 Facilities
00:25:49 5.1 Payload processing
00:28:36 5.2 Launch Complex 39
00:31:55 5.3 Commercial leasing
00:33:02 5.4 Visitor complex
00:34:53 5.5 Historic locations
00:36:24 6 Weather
00:38:55 7 KSC directors
00:39:18 8 Labor force
00:41:19 9 Film appearances
00:42:46 10 See also



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The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers. Since December 1968, Kennedy Space Center has been NASA's primary launch center of human spaceflight. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). The management of the two entities work very closely together, share resources, and even own facilities on each other's property.
Though the first Apollo flights, and all Project Mercury and Project Gemini flights took off from CCAFS, the launches were managed by KSC and its previous organization, the Launch Operations Directorate. Starting with the fourth Gemini mission, the NASA launch control center in Florida (Mercury Control Center, later the Launch Control Center) began handing off control of the vehicle to the Mission Control Center shortly after liftoff; in prior missions it held control throughout the entire mission.Additionally, the center manages launch of robotic and commercial crew missions and researches food production and In-Situ Resource Utilization for off-Earth exploration. Since 2010, the center has worked to become a multi-user spaceport through industry partnerships, even adding a new launch pad (LC-39C) in 2015.
There are about 700 facilities and buildings grouped across the center's 144,000 acres. Among the unique facilities at KSC are the 525 ft tall Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking NASA's largest rockets, the Launch Control Center - which conducts space launches at KSC, the Operations and Checkout Building, which houses the astronauts dormitories and suit-up area, a Space Station factory, and a 3-mile-long Shuttle Landing Facility. There is also a Visitor Complex open to the public on site.