🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Kennedy Space Center
US space launch site in Florida
🇺🇸 United States · 28.5247, -80.6486
Kennedy Space Center is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikipedia names it for 5 more.
“Zemeckis and the production crew also made several visits to the Kennedy Space Center at Merritt Island adjacent to Cape Canaveral, where officials gave them access to sites off-limits to most visitors.”
Movies filmed at Kennedy Space Center
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Kennedy Space Center as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2011
- Contact 1997
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Moonraker
1979
“All of the space centre scenes were shot at the Vehicle Assembly Building of the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, although some of the earlier scenes of the Moonraker assembly plant had been filmed on location at the Rockwell International manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California.” Wikipedia
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Space Cowboys
2000
“Scenes were filmed on location at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.” Wikipedia
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Swades
2004
“Swades was the first Indian film to be shot inside the NASA headquarters and inside the NASA research center at the Launch Pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.” Wikipedia
Filming locations nearby
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🏙 Towns & cities
Merritt Island
🇺🇸 United States
census designated place in Brevard County, Florida, United States
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
🇺🇸 United States
launch pad at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Orbiter Processing Facility
🇺🇸 United States
class of hangars formerly used for Space Shuttle maintenance at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Vehicle Assembly Building
🇺🇸 United States
building used by NASA to assemble rockets at the Kennedy Space Center
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Cape Canaveral
🇺🇸 United States
cape on the Atlantic coast of Florida in the United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Rockledge
🇺🇸 United States
city in Brevard County, Florida, United States of America
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Kennedy Space Center?
6 productions are recorded as filmed at Kennedy Space Center, including Apollo 13 (1995), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) and Contact (1997). 5 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed at Kennedy Space Center?
Apollo 13 (1995), covered by 64 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Kennedy Space Center?
Kennedy Space Center is in the United States, at 28.5247, -80.6486.
What other filming locations are near Kennedy Space Center?
Merritt Island, Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A, Orbiter Processing Facility, Vehicle Assembly Building and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by NASA, Public domain.