Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Scott PowersSeptember 21, 2016

NASA will be required to commit to putting people on Mars in the latest U.S. Senate NASA reauthorization bill, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Wednesday. The Bill, S. 3346, was unanimously approved by the Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday authorizing NASA to spend $19.6 billion budgeted for the agency and setting a few new requirements, including that […]

Scott PowersAugust 19, 2016

Saying NASA needs long-range political assurances, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio declared broad backing for the space agency’s agenda Friday and called on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to do the same. Rubio met Friday with space industry representatives and others in a roundtable discussion organized by the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast and Space […]

Scott PowersApril 4, 2016

NASA’s plans and preparation for Kennedy Space Center to handle rocket launches to Mars are on track with overhauls of a key launch pad, the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building, a new mobile launcher and other major improvements, the agency has said. As the nation’s premier launch complex prepares to host private company space launches in the […]

Scott PowersMarch 17, 2016

When NASA officials refer to their singular human-spaceflight program “Journey To Mars,” they’re not talking about the 800 to 1,000 days it will take for astronauts to get there and back. At Kennedy Space Center, indeed all of Cape Canaveral, and worldwide for that matter, spaceflight and human-spaceflight facilities and organizations are incubating private, commercial-space programs […]

Tag: Journey to Mars

Bill Nelson: NASA reauthorization bill requires feet on Mars

Marco Rubio declares support for NASA plan, calls on presidential nominees to do same

NASA: Work on track for Kennedy Space Center transition to Mars mission

NASA’s ‘Journey To Mars’ begins with a thousand steps

After brutal storms, Gov. DeSantis declares state of emergency, activates Florida National Guard