In 1971, the American space probe "Mariner Nine" blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, on a journey to Mars.

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In 1966, Orbiter 1 was launched from Cape Kennedy and became the first spacecraft to transmit Lunar photographs of possible landing sites.

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In 1971, "Apollo 15" was launched from Cape Kennedy.

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ET, about 15 minutes before it had been expected to land at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Kennedy suffered a seizure in May 2008 at his home on Cape Cod.

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After a party for women who had worked on his brother Robert's presidential campaign, Kennedy drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick, off Cape Cod and across a narrow channel from Martha's Vineyard.

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Kennedy Presidential Library from the family's Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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