The Cape Canaveral launch facility, in central Florida—the primary rocket-launch facility in the United States—is rapidly approaching the milestone of 1,000 rocket launches, a goal it will likely reach by the end of this year. Combined with military facilities at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California (769 total launches) or the even more secretive facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, the U.S. has launched, according to Space Launch Schedule, almost 2,000 rockets since the space era first dawned in the 1960s.
In second place are the Russians, who have launched (including the Soviet era) a total of 1,548 rockets, almost exclusively from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in the modern Republic of Kazakhstan. Russia also launches specialized missions from any of several military-connected facilities, such as the far north Vostochny Cosmodrome in Siberia, and a few others. China has now launched more than 800 rockets into space from five different domestic locations, including 49 from a floating launch pad at sea.
