Scott PowersArtist's rendering of NASA's planned Space Launch System rocket blasting off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Artwork courtesy of NASA.
Space Launch System artist renderingFor theme park lovers planning their 2025 ahead, Universal Orlando Resort has released the dates of its most popular events throughout the upcoming year.
Universal is also hosting a new special ticketed after-hours event at its water park. Universal Volcano Bay Nights will launch in April and May, a time when the Summer temperatures are regularly felt in Central Florida.
Universal promised to release more details later but teased online that Universal Volcano Bay Nights includes live entertainment, character meet-and-greets and a “big splash of awesomeness.”
Disney World’s and SeaWorld’s water parks also offer similar events to give special access to guests at night when the sun is less intense.
Meanwhile, Universal Orlando Resort announced that Universal Mardi Gras: International Flavors of Carnaval kicks off Feb. 1 and ends March 30. The food festival and concert series includes a special Mardi Gras parade and plenty of in-park entertainment.
Artist's rendering of NASA's planned Space Launch System rocket blasting off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Artwork courtesy of NASA.
Scott Powers
Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years’ experience, mostly at newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel and the Columbus Dispatch. He covers local, state and federal politics and space news across much of Central Florida. His career earned numerous journalism awards for stories ranging from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to presidential elections to misplaced nuclear waste. He and his wife Connie have three grown children. Besides them, he’s into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused. Email him at [email protected].