The claim: Cocoa Beach, 2,341
What it really is: Patrick Air Force Base is an Air Force Space Command base.
The base is used to launched unmanned rockets and satellites for the US military, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the National Security Agency, as well as scientific payload launches in support of NASA, weather satellite launches in support of NOAA, payloads in support of international customers such as the European Space Agency, and commercial payloads for various corporate communications entities.
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