Cape Canaveral --> Cape Kennedy --> Cape Canaveral

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

Let's just say I view all events now in the context of a right wing agenda. Can you blame me? Does anyone remember the story on why Cape Kennedy reverted back to its original name? Was it a right wing plot to erase the name of one of our 20th Century Democratic icons? Back when it happened, I didn't put much thought into an ulterior motivation.
:shrug:

[Kelvin Mace]

1. No, it was

annoyance by the inhabitants of Cape Canaveral of having the name changed by a minority.

[paineinthearse]

2. I believe that is right

"Canaveral" is the historic name for the cape. The facility was appropriately (re-)named the KENNEDY SPACE CENTER.

[Squatch]

3. Town-->Cape Canaveral_____NASA-->JF Kennedy Space Center

[name not needed]

4. The residents of Cape Canaveral wanted the name changed back

As far as I know, the Kennedy family wrote a letter stating that they understood the decision to change the name back.

[ArkDem]

5. Wouldn't 'reverted back' be redundant?

[Bridget Burke]

6. Cape Canaveral got its name in 1564. It goes way back.

But the Kennedy Spaceflight Center's name has not changed.

[classof56]

7. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I seem to recall

the locals took issue with changing the name, so it was changed back to Canaveral and the space center was named for Kennedy. Lots of emotion-driven changes occur after someone dies, not too unusual. The sad part is when years later many can't remember who the honored person was or why a building, etc., was so named. In Kennedy's case, this is of course not true. It's my thought that it wasn't a right wing plot to erase JFK's name, since so many other things are named for him, but our country was not so divided back in those days and for a long time afterwards, again, if my memory is accurate. All the places named for Reagan really frustrate me, and the day something is proposed to be named for Dubya, I'll gladly join a left wing movement to stop it and better yet, to erase his name from history.

Just MHO.

Tired Old Cynic

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. I'm waiting for it to be renamed to Starfleet Command

Hey, dare to dream!

[Kelvin Mace]

10. Nice, but their politcal

machinations are almost as bad as ours. <g>

VAdm. David Allen, Star Fleet (ret)

[TrueAmerican]

9. Does the "liberal" media report

form "Cape Cavaveral" or the "Kennedy Space Center"?

Where does Fox say they are broadcasting from?

"YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE AT ----------------"

[Lowell]

11. Cape Canaveral is an old name

and many of the locals resisted the change. It had little to do with politics and a lot to do with a sense of history. Being a native Floridian myself I never understood why they changed it from Canaveral to Kennedy in the first place. They did the right thing when they gave us back the historical name Canaveral and renamed the space center after Kennedy.

[CitrusLib]

12. Here we just call it The Cape and everyone knows what you mean.

Cape Canaveral is the town. Kennedy Space Center is the facility. Both are prominantly displayed on 528 as you head East from Orlando. :)

[newswolf56]

13. When I knew it, the only outstanding feature of Cape Canaveral...

was the Banana River Naval Air Station. If I remember correctly -- I was a child and it was during World War II -- it was headquarters for the anti-submarine patrol: mostly those one-storey yellow wooden military buildings (offices and barracks) and it seems to me a Blimp hangar too, with a PB-Y mooring big enough to accommodate at least a dozen aircraft.

(For those too young to know, PB-Ys were amphibians or "flying boats" -- big muscularly beautiful twin-engine planes that took off and landed on water. For some reason, the engines on the PB-Ys had a very distinct sound: you could always distinguish it from that of the other aircraft of the era, just as you could always identify a Blimp by its slow drone or a P-51 by its fast thunderous snarl.)

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

14. Thanks for informing me. I will now remove my tinfoil hat.

I can always count on the DU reality-based community for the truth.