Steffen Hägele, Christian Portmann

Cape Canaveral was the most prominent stage of the legendary Space Race and is today both a highly secured military infrastructure and a touristic hotspot. It is embedded in large scale Nature Reserves (Canaveral National Seashore, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge) that protect it from the outside and at the same time profit from the various ways in with public access to the area is controlled. It seems that the interests of national security, tourism and real estate development and wildlife protection form a complex and somewhat unusual symbiosis that take full use of the area’s natural environment.