Siesta Public Beach

Historical marker location:

Sarasota, Florida

( Marker is at the intersection of Beach Road (Alternate County Road 789) and Beach Way Drive, on the left when traveling west on Beach Road.)

Marker installed: 1986

Florida has been the site of many space launches and is home to the Kennedy Space Center, where NASA launched the Apollo missions to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s.