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- 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
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Examples
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Yes, namely Cape Canaveral where we have the space shuttle.
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In comparison, if you write out the second biggest database, the British national corpus, you only get from Mountain View to the launching pad in Cape Canaveral.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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The space shuttle era began in 1981, when shuttle Columbia launched from Cape Canaveral.
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NASA held a memorial at the launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida to honor the Challenger's seven crew members, including schoolteacher and citien Christa McAuliffe, who perished in the space shuttle's explosion, as well as the "fallen explorers" on board the Apollo 1 and Columbia.
Readers' Moving Memories Of Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster The Huffington Post 2011
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Wednesday's fueling operation was delayed several hours by thunderstorms that pounded Cape Canaveral on Tuesday.
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Astronaut Mark Kelly has said he expects his wife to be well enough to be at Cape Canaveral, Fla., for his launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, although her doctor says it's too early to say.
Gabrielle Giffords' Husband Discusses Wife's Recovery AP 2011
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On Nov. 18, 2010, new homeowner and investor Matthew Everly of Melbourne arrived at Cherie Down Lane in Cape Canaveral to inspect and change the locks on a home he purchased the day before at a real estate auction.
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Shuttle teams may have to work around next Friday's planned blastoff of an Atlas V rocket and missile warning satellite from Cape Canaveral.
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Astronaut Mark Kelly has said he expects his wife to be well enough to be at Cape Canaveral, Fla., for his launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, although her doctor says it's too early to say.
Gabrielle Giffords' Husband Discusses Wife's Recovery AP 2011
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On Wednesday, technicians finished replacing a power switching box inside Endeavour's aft compartment at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A.Meanwhile, at the NASA Shuttle Logistics Depot in Cape Canaveral, a detailed "forensic" analysis was under way of the failed box, which was removed from the orbiter Tuesday.
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(Cape Canaveral, by Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band)
December 2, 2009