NOUN
- a sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight
How To Use Cape Canaveral In A Sentence
- They line up along a worn river bank in the towns near the launch pad on Cape Canaveral, waiting for days, then nail-biting hours, to see a group of people embark on a completely different kind of journey, this one powered by rockets that do zero to 17,000 mph in 8.5 minutes. Alex Pasternack: Humanity's Greatest Spectacle
- The Effingham beach ridges are distinctive in that they show a series of cuspate forelands of dimension similar to Merritt Island and Cape Canaveral.
- Thousands of people had gathered at Cape Canaveral to watch the rocket lift off.
- One typical press account of the events, datelined Cape Canaveral, stated that ‘the project advanced space exploration and improved Cold War relations between the two countries.’
- The second stage of a Delta II rocket is prepared for its shift to vertical alongside the gantry at pad 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station.
- The GOES-O satellite is on the move, on its way to Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral, where it will be moved to the United Launch Alliance Delta IV expendable launch vehicle.
- The nice thing about this line is that you can extend it to Cape Canaveral, where you can then have an intermodal station to transfer from HSR to a spaceship that will take you to Mars, finally enabling Tampa-Cydonia commuting. Matthew Yglesias » Where to Build HSR
- Of the three authors only John Muratore was a NASA flight controller (he was also an IUS test director at Cape Canaveral). Abbey Lane: They're Back - NASA Watch
- CAPE CANAVERAL President Obama's plans for NASA could be "devastating" to the U.S. space program and "destines our nation to become one of second - or even third-rate stature," three legendary astronauts said in a letter Tuesday. Moon vets say Obama's NASA cuts would ground U.S.
- The probe was set to lift off this afternoon from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle.