Cape Canaveral in Florida, U.S.A, is the hub of the American Space Program, and launch site of numerous American space missions, the most famous being the launch of Apollo 11.
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Dark of the Moon Film
In 1969, Apollo 11 was launched on a mission to locate the wreckage of a crashed alien ship. It carried Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins to the crash site on the Moon.
Later in 2011, The Autobots Transport ship, Xantium is located hear. When the Autobots are exciled they take of in this ship, but it it is destroyed by Starscream, supposedly killing the Autobots. Dark of the Moon