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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 […]

Kimberly DeFalcoFebruary 13, 2016

At the site of the future Manatee Solar Energy Center in Parrish, Florida Power & Light executives, environmentalists, state and local officials cheered as a groundbreaking ceremony significantly changed the dynamics of solar power in the Sunshine State. At 10:50 a.m. Thursday, FPL President and CEO Eric Silagy and Agricultural Commissioner Adam Putnam flipped the […]

Scott PowersFebruary 9, 2016

Development of NASA’s next big rocket, the Space Launch System, would be delayed under the budget proposed Tuesday by President Barack Obama, bringing space exploration advocates are saying. The president’s fiscal year 2017 federal budget calls for just over $19 billion for NASA, which is more than the president proposed last year but $260 million […]

Scott PowersFebruary 5, 2016

U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Democratic candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat, said Friday that he supports broad but efficient development of a commercial space program and also thinks the U.S. government needs to keep pursuing space for military and intelligence support. Murphy on Friday was the first U.S. Senate candidate this year to meet with Space Coast […]

Melissa RossFebruary 3, 2016

The city of Jacksonville is no longer taking part in the Rockefeller Foundation’s “100 Resilient Cities” Initiative. The program awards cities around the world $1 million grants to address issues such as sea level rise and extreme weather. Former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown applied for the grant and received it, but under the Lenny Curry […]

Scott PowersJanuary 29, 2016

NASA has announced a launch date for the next commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, but the mission is the next one planned for Orbital ATK to fly, not the SpaceX mission that was expected to come first. NASA is preparing for an early-morning, March 10 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. […]

Scott PowersJanuary 28, 2016

NASA expects to delay its next shipment of equipment and supplies to the International Space Station because SpaceX has not yet determined a launch date. After successful return-to-flight launches in December from Cape Canaveral and last week from California, SpaceX had two launches coming up next, but neither has been set yet. That includes the […]

Scott PowersJanuary 28, 2016

The end of January to the first day of February — starting Wednesday and running through Monday — is always a most somber time for NASA and America’s space program. Those dates mark anniversaries of three of the nation’s most visible tragedies: Apollo 1, the Space Shuttle Challenger and Columbia disasters. It also reminds us […]

Scott PowersJanuary 27, 2016

The end of January to the first day of February — starting today and running through Monday — is always a most somber time for NASA and America’s space program. These are the dates that mark anniversaries of three of the nation’s most visible tragedies: NASA Apollo 1, the Space Shuttle Challenger and Columbia disasters. […]

Scott PowersJanuary 14, 2016

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Sierra Nevada’s space plane “Dream Chaser” will be launching from Florida’s Cape Canaveral and landing on the old space shuttle runway as early as late this year and regularly by the end of the decade. NASA announced Thursday that it had selected Sierra Nevada as a third private contractor to shuttle supplies and equipment to […]

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FPL breaks ground on new solar power plants

Proposed NASA budget cuts SLS funding but increases most science and KSC development

Patrick Murphy supports balance of government, private space program

Jacksonville drops out of “100 Resilient Cities” initiative

NASA preps for next Orbital ATK resupply mission, possibly skipping SpaceX

NASA delaying space station resupply awaiting SpaceX launch plans

NASA, Space Coast remembers Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia disasters

NASA’s Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia disasters remembered by agency and Space Coast

NASA picks space plane company Sierra Nevada Corp. as third cargo contractor