The first real settlement in Cocoa Beach, Florida was started by a family of newly freed slaves following the Civil War, but a hurricane in 1885 discouraged settlement.

Brevard's population skyrocketed 371% during the 1950s with Cape Canaveral missile testing, NASA and Project Mercury, ...

Cocoa Beach Days and Surf Culture No trip to the Space Coast would be complete without at least one lazy beach day. Cocoa Beach is the area’s most iconic seaside town, with wide sandy beaches ...

Weather permitting, a SpaceX rocket could be seen in Cocoa Beach, Merritt Island, Melbourne, Titusville after liftoff. ... How to watch liftoff near Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center.

Weather permitting and depending on cloud cover, some rocket launches from the Space Coast can be visible in Palm Beach County. When there’s a launch window in the middle of the night or very ...

So will the Space Coast beaches, and local attractions like the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and the Brevard Zoo. Also, traffic could be heavy, particularly in tourist-heavy corridors like ...

Newly released data from the Space Coast Office of Tourism shows that the collection of Brevard County's 5% tourist development tax — a key indicator of tourism — during the March/April spring ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center, Florida early Wednesday. A SpaceX rocket took to the Florida sky during the bright, early hours of Wednesday, May 28.

Last year, there were 67 successful launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and 26 at Kennedy Space Center, up from 58 at Cape Canaveral and 13 at Kennedy in 2023.