Kennedy Space Center
United States space launch site in Florida
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| 2025 | Planned completion of the Asteroid Redirect Mission as part of Obama's space exploration strategy. |
| March 2022 | The Gateway attraction, subtitled 'The Deep Space Launch Complex', opened in the spring, featuring displays of space exploration hardware including a Falcon Heavy booster, Exploration Flight Test-1 capsule, and interactive exhibits about deep space exploration. |
| March 2021 | A Delta II launch vehicle was added to the Rocket Garden. |
| January 1 2021 | Planet Play attraction opened to the public, providing an immersive interactive space exploration-themed play area for children aged 2-12, featuring climbing structures, slides, interactive games, and light projections. |
| June 2019 | Therrin Protze, a visitor complex official, offered SpaceX placement for a Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy booster in the Rocket Garden. Elon Musk expressed interest in the offer. |
| 2018 | Saturn IB rocket was restored in the Rocket Garden. |
| January 2014 | The Obama administration announced plans to extend the International Space Station's operational life to 2024, seeking four additional years of operation. |
| 2013 | The Obama administration cut NASA's planetary-sciences budget by 20 percent, contrary to National Research Council recommendations. |
| September 2011 | Details were announced for the Space Launch System, a NASA-developed Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicle to replace the Ares I and Ares V rockets. |
| April 2011 | Budget legislation officially terminated the Constellation program, allowing NASA to pursue new initiatives. |
| 2010 | A refurbished Titan II missile from the Air Force ICBM was rescued from the Arizona Boneyard and erected to replace a deteriorating mockup. |
| October 11 2010 | NASA Authorization Act of 2010 is passed, officially enacting many of the Obama administration's space policy goals. |
| July 1 2010 | NASA Administrator Charles Bolden revealed Obama's unique priorities for NASA, emphasizing international relationships and outreach to Muslim nations, notably departing from traditional space exploration goals. |
| February 1 2010 | Buzz Aldrin released a statement supporting Obama's space policy plan via the White House, prior to the 2011 federal budget announcement. |
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