Cape Canaveral is the World’s Busiest Spaceport

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Cape Canaveral’s Moon Express was recently selected to complete for up to two and a half billion dollars worth of NASA contracts; which will begin the campaign of getting the nation back to the moon. This activity is followed by a number of different aerospace companies that won NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. The last time the space agency landed a spacecraft on the moon was 1972, and they agree that we’re due for another visit. Cape Canaveral is scheduled to see 30 launches in 2016, from a wide variety of vehicles including the United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Dragon rockets. The last time the Space Coast saw this level of activity was during the 1960s race to space. With announcements from companies like Blue Origins’ plans to call Cape Canaveral home to their commercial space program, Brevard County is on track to log even more activity in the coming years. As companies like SpaceX set their sights on Mars, and demand for commercial payload deliveries continues to rise, the Space Coast may once again lead the way.

For more information about Cape Canaveral’s launch activity, read Spaceflight Now’s article, this report in the Orlando Business Journal, or Florida Today’s story. For the official launch schedule, visit the Kennedy Space Center’s website. If you are planning to visit the Space Coast and are in need of accommodations, give us a call at (321)-784-5046 or e-mail us at [email protected]!