KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A variety of water lilies reach for the sun from their water beds. Kennedy Space Center is surrounded by marshes and creeks, part of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge which shares a boundary with the Center. Approximately one-half of the refuge’s 140,000 acres consists of brackish estuaries and marshes. The remaining lands consist of coastal dunes, scrub oaks, pine forests and flatwoods, and palm and oak hammocks.