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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 […]

Associated PressOctober 31, 2016

The Interstate 4 corridor stretching from the Tampa Bay area through Orlando to Daytona Beach is a bellwether of the nation’s largest swing state, where both candidates campaigned vigorously last week and President Barack Obama on Friday called on voters here to support Hillary Clinton. North Florida is predictably Republican, and South Florida remains strongly […]

Associated PressOctober 12, 2016

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center reopened for business Tuesday, relying on industrial air conditioners rushed in from around the country in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Director Robert Cabana said the damage – mostly ripped-off roofs – is still being tallied, but is in the millions of dollars. He said it would have been much worse […]

Associated PressOctober 7, 2016

Hurricane Matthew sideswiped Florida’s Atlantic coast early Friday, toppling trees onto homes and knocking out power to more than 800,000 people but sparing the most heavily populated stretch of shoreline the catastrophic blow many had feared. Authorities warned that the danger was far from over, with hundreds of miles of coastline in Florida, Georgia and […]

Associated PressOctober 6, 2016

Forecasters say the first outer rain bands from Hurricane Matthew already have begun to approach Florida as the big storm crosses the Bahamas toward the state. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Matthew is still a Category 3 hurricane as of 8 a.m. Thursday, packing top sustained winds up to 125 mph. It’s […]

Associated PressOctober 5, 2016

Hurricane Matthew marched toward Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas and at least a half a million people along the coast were urged to evacuate their homes Wednesday, a mass exodus ahead of a major storm packing power the U.S. hasn’t seen in more than a decade. Matthew was a dangerous and life-threatening Category 3 storm […]

Scott PowersSeptember 27, 2016

SpaceX founder Elon Musk unveiled his career dream Tuesday of launching an entire, self-sustaining human civilization to Mars, and revealed his company is designing a huge rocket and spacecraft to do so. Musk, the PayPal billionaire who built the world’s most successful 21st century rocket company, began his 45-minute address to the International Astronautical Congress […]

Scott PowersApril 21, 2016

Orbital ATK was selected Thursday by NASA to negotiate to lease, remodel and use a bay in the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center for a large rocket the company hopes to develop with the Air Force. Virginia-based Orbital ATK is one of two rocket companies that launch resupply missions to the International […]

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 […]

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

Florida’s I-4 corridor is where the election could be won

Space center reopens after hurricane, damage in millions

‘This is not over’: Hurricane sideswipes Florida coast

Matthew approaches as South Florida sees first rain bands, expected Cat 4

At least 500K urged to evacuate as Matthew nears Florida

Elon Musk: 1 million people on Mars, using his Big Florida Rocket

Orbital ATK picked to use NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center

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

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