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Scott PowersDecember 8, 2016

John Glenn, who became a national hero when he became the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth in 1962, and then became a longtime U.S. senator from Ohio and presidential candidate, has died in Columbus at the age of 95. Glenn’s Nov. 20, 1962, triumph in orbit aboard Friendship 7 had made him such […]

Scott PowersDecember 8, 2016

NASA has awarded a potential long-term contract to a.i. solutions that could be worth up to $388 million to provide end-to-end launch preparation services for payloads the space agency intends to blast into space on commercial rockets from Kennedy Space Center and from California. The space agency announced Wednesday evening it is awarding a.i. solutions […]

Scott PowersDecember 7, 2016

A Delta IV rocket blasted into the night sky over Cape Canaveral Wednesday night to carry an Air Force telecommunications rocket into space. The United Launch Alliance rocket blasted off without a hitch and on time, at 6:53 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. ULA’s Patrick Moore declared the rocket’s launch and separation of […]

Scott PowersDecember 7, 2016

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Florida’s Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson both applauded passage Wednesday by the U.S. Senate of a bill that heads off potential cuts in cancer research at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa and the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Senate approved H.R. 34, entitled the “21st Century Cures Act,” by a […]

Scott PowersDecember 7, 2016

U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy called on Congress to pursue bipartisan unity and eschew any “hateful and divisive” rhetoric as he gave a farewell speech to the House of Representatives Tuesday night. Murphy, the Democrats’ failed candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat in the Nov. 8 election, conceded “the outcome of this election was not what […]

Scott PowersDecember 7, 2016

Behind barbed-wire fences and armed guards, an unmarked, nondescript block building invisible from the road features countless surveillance cameras, a walk-in safe, explosion-proof rooms, and labs stocked with equipment that would make any college chemistry department envious, such as an inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer. This is not Bruce Knox‘s father’s flower nursery. Not anymore. Welcome to Knox Medical LLC’s facilities […]

Scott PowersDecember 6, 2016

Talk about stopping the export of jobs: U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson has added an amendment to a likely to pass bill that seeks to get the United Nations to hire more Americans. Citing U.N. data, Grayson’s office argued that the United States pays 22 percent of the international organization’s budget; yet only 6 percent of […]

Scott PowersDecember 6, 2016

Apopka environmentalist and former Democratic candidate for Florida Senate District 11 Chuck O’Neal, has been appointed to The League of Women Voters of Florida’s State Board of Directors. O’Neal rejoins the board after resigning early this year to run for state office. He previously served as first vice president of The League of Women Voters of […]

Scott PowersDecember 6, 2016

John Morgan has powerful split emotions about the prospect of running for governor in 2018 as a Democrat, and figures he has at least a year to decide. Morgan, the 60-year-old Orlando trial attorney who championed Florida’s Amendment 2 medical marijuana initiative this year, said others – not he – are pushing for him to run for […]

Scott PowersDecember 5, 2016

A powerful Delta IV rocket is set to blast off from Cape Canaveral Wednesday evening to carry an Air Force satellite into space. The United Launch Alliance launch is set to take place between 6:53 and 7:42 p.m. Wednesday from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rocket is to carry the […]

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Kathleen King and Joe Gruters. Image via Max Goodman.

John Glenn dead at 95

Maryland company gets NASA launch support contract worth up to $388 million

ULA blasts Air Force comm satellite into orbit

Bill Nelson, Marco Rubio applaud NIH funding bill passage; Moffitt money preserved

Patrick Murphy’s farewell speech focuses on bipartisan unity

Knox Medical opens doors to Florida’s medical marijuana future

Alan Grayson adds amendment to get U.N. to hire Americans

League of Women Voters puts Chuck O’Neal on its board

John Morgan torn on possible governor run, and in no hurry

Delta IV launch with Air Force satellite set for Wednesday