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Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip (IATA: XMR, ICAO: KXMR) is a military airport near Cocoa Beach, Florida, United States. Part of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the CCAFS Skid Strip was mostly remembered as the runway used by NASA's Pregnant Guppy and Super Guppy transport aircraft used to carry the S-IVB upper stage for the Saturn IB and Saturn V rockets used in Project Apollo. The CCAFS Skid Strip is sometimes confused with the Shuttle Landing Facility, but that runway, specially constructed for the Space Shuttle, is located at the adjacent Kennedy Space Center.
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