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Can you tell me something about the Kennedy Center?

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Kennedy Center: The Kennedy Art Center is made of 3,700 tons of white marble, and its magnificent hall is 60 feet high. 1972 opened, which is a place dedicated to all kinds of artistic performances. Its opera house and concert hall have excellent acoustics.

The art center includes an opera house, two stage performance halls, an experimental theater, a concert hall, a cinema and a performing arts library. Going to the Kennedy Center to see a performance is one of the main programs in Washington. Strolling on the roof terrace in the center, visitors can also enjoy the scenery of the Potomac River and Washington.

Address: On the Potomac River, next to Watergate Building.

Kennedy Space Center: the largest space launch site in the United States. Merritt Island-Cape Canaveral is located on the east coast of Florida, with a total area of 560 square kilometers. It is mainly used to launch spacecraft with small orbital inclination. The Kennedy Space Center has 14 launch areas, most of which have been stopped or dismantled. Launch site No.39 built in 1966 and its industrial zone are still in use. It was built to carry out the Apollo program and was rebuilt for the launch and test of the space shuttle. When carrying out the launch mission, we can also get the service support of the tracking and measuring stations in Cape Canaveral and Atlantic Islands along the route of the Air Force Eastern Space and Missile Test Center, and we can use more than 30 monitoring and control stations and communication networks established in the United States and around the world. navigate by water/air

Spacecraft launches also use survey vessels, salvage and recovery vessels and aircraft equipped with special equipment. Gemini spacecraft, Apollo spacecraft and space shuttle were launched from Kennedy Space Center.