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Definition: Cape Kennedy |
Cape KennedyNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Cape KennedySynonym: Cape Canaveral (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cape Kennedy |
| English words defined with "Cape Kennedy": Cape Canaveral. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cape Kennedy": KSC ♦ launching base. (references) |
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Screenplays | No, Cape Kennedy. I'm looking for a flight to the moon. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
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 | The Gemini IV space capsule is lifted aboard USS Wasp (CVS-18) on 7 June 1965, after completing a 62 revolution flight around the Earth in 97 hours and 56 minutes. The spacecraft, crewed by Astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White, landed about 48 miles short of its target and some 400 miles east of Cape Kennedy, Florida, at 12:12 PM Eastern Standard Time on 7 June. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Gemini IV mission covered over 1,600,000 miles in the longest multimanned space flight yet flown. Caption information comes from the original NASA caption.Credit: NAVY. |  | "U.S.S. Lake Champlain -- Navy frogmen place the floatation collar around the Gemini Titan 2 spacecraft. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the spacecraft from Cape Kennedy, Jan. 19, 1965 at 9:03 and it was recovered by the recovery forces aboard the U.S.S. Lake Champlain some 2100 miles downrange at 10:45 a.m. Flight time was 19:03 minutes. Actual landing was 16 miles short of the programmed landing area." Quoted from the original caption released by NASA with this photograph. Lake Champlain (CVS-39) is in the background. One of her SH-3 helicopters is hovering over the spacecraft.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Astronauts Edward H. White and James A. McDivitt with "Complex Leader" Gunther Wandt prepare for Gemini-4 mock simulated test at Cape Kennedy.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cape kennedy | 49 |
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| Language | Translations for "Cape Kennedy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | мыс кеннеди. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-k-n-n-p-y" | |
-3 letters: cayenned, penanced, pendency. | |
-4 letters: cayenne, kneecap, kneepad, kneepan, penance. | |
-5 letters: canned, decane, deepen, ennead, keened, kenned, keypad, necked, packed, panned, peaced, peaked, pecked, peeked, peened, pennae, penned, yacked, yanked, yeaned, yenned. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 70 65 4B 65 6E 6E 65 64 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110000 01100101 00100000 01001011 01100101 01101110 01101110 01100101 01100100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a p e   K e n n e d y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0070 0065 004B 0065 006E 006E 0065 0064 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678271245718080717091 |
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