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 the Saturn V, the launch body of the Apollo missions.
It also served as the base of the Space Shuttle Program.
Fiction
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, under the protection of NEST, The Autobots Transport ship, Xantium is located hear. When the Autobots are exciled they drive along the famous road leading to to the launchpad.
They reluctantly take of in this ship, but before it could leave Earth's atmosphere, it is destroyed by Starscream, supposedly killing the Autobots. Dark of the Moon