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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Landmarks & buildings
Orbiter Processing Facility
United States·7 km north
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·7 km north
building used by NASA to assemble rockets at the Kennedy Space Center
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Landmarks & buildings
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
United States·8 km south-east
United States Space Force facility in Brevard County, Florida
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Landmarks & buildings
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
United States·10 km north-east
launch pad at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
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Landscapes & nature
Cape Canaveral
United States·14 km south-east
cape on the Atlantic coast of Florida in the United States
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Towns & cities
Merritt Island
United States·19 km south
census designated place in Brevard County, Florida, United States
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. Its coordinates are 28.5247, -80.6486.
What other filming locations are near Kennedy Space Center?
Orbiter Processing Facility (7 km north), Vehicle Assembly Building (7 km north), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (8 km south-east), Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (10 km north-east) and 2 more — all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.
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.