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On March 7, 2023, the US Space Force, along with the Department of the Air Force, held the third of three in-person meetings in the Cape Canaveral / Titusville area, The purpose of the meetings was to provide information about a proposed Environmental Impact Study that would ultimately see SpaceX’s Starship Super Heavy rocket launch and land at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
In our vibrant and diverse state of Florida, the importance of early voting as a cornerstone of our democratic process cannot be overstated. Early voting in the Presidential Preference Primary is key to the state’s commitment to ensuring that every voice is heard and every vote counts.
Elon Musk is ready to give it another go, with a SpaceX post surfacing on X yesterday, announcing a potential launch date for the third Starship test flight. The company’s Starship and super-heavy booster combo is now expected to launch at 7:30AM CDT on March 14th from SpaceX’s Starbase, in Boca Chica, Texas IF regulatory approval is obtained in time.
Do you want to be an Astronaut? NASA is looking for another batch of candidates with ‘The Right Stuff” to train for missions to the lunar south pole region.NASA announced today that applications are now being accepted for the “Artemis Generation” class starting in 2025.
Famed Florida fine-arts photographer Clyde Butcher once said, “Out west, they have their mountains. We have our clouds.” Butcher’s observation was spot-on. The Sunshine State is home to some incredible sights in our skies—be it the setting sun illuminating a faraway thunderstorm, a wall cloud from an approaching tropical storm, or even just a regular day when the clouds take on shapes where they appear to be animals or something else familiar. There’s always something interesting to see here by simply looking upwards into the atmosphere.
After days of weather delays and last minute concerns about a cracked hatch seal, the SpaceX crew Dragon Endeavour carrying Crew 8 to the ISS launched from the Kennedy Space Center Sunday night. The successful liftoff came at 10:53 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A. The mission marked SpaceX’s eighth commercial crew rotation mission on behalf of NASA, and the launch of the 50th human into space by the company since 2020.
When I was a kid, Wolfie’s in Cocoa Beach was one of my Dad’s favorites to take me out to eat, It was kid-friendly, unlike a place like The Mousetrap or other infamous and legendary Cocoa Beach haunts. They’re all long gone now, as is the nature of restaurants in a resort town. One that is especially missed by many is Wolfie’s, a place that not only had a great lunch but also a side-note in space history that is definitely funny today but was not at all amusing in the mid-1960’s.
When some of us in the media were first introduced to Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander named Odysseus, we were a bit puzzled. Why was the Columbia Sportswear logo prominently displayed on the gold-foiled exterior?
