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Scott PowersDecember 12, 2018

Florida’s Democrat Bill Nelson bid adieu to his colleagues in the U.S. Senate Wednesday afternoon but vowed to not leave public life, a pledge warmly welcomed by other senators starting with Republican Marco Rubio who said he will be remembered as a giant. In a 30-minute speech from the floor of the U.S. Senate, Nelson recalled […]

Guest AuthorJuly 6, 2015

The words “We have liftoff!” are as exciting as any in the English language; right up there with “Gentlemen, start your engines!” The remarkable feat of sending a rocket or space shuttle into space has seen the heights of triumph and the depths of failure. Many still agonize over a fire that took the lives […]

Melissa RossJuly 6, 2015

This week in Jacksonville, Community Health Outreach will commemorate the 20th anniversary of former NASA Astronaut and Jacksonville resident Norm Thagard’s return from the Russian Mir 18 mission on July 7, 1995. Twenty-eight experiments were conducted in the course of the 115-day flight. The mission culminated in a landing at the Kennedy Space Center in the […]

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Bill Nelson bids U.S. Senate adieu, vows to continue fighting

Jeff Kottkamp and Rich Ramos: Price for long-term success can be short-term failure

Former Jax NASA astronaut: “A shame we didn’t replace the shuttle program with new vehicle”