Departure dropoff for MCO’s Terminals A and B. Some call this place “where you enter the maw of the beast.” Photo: Orlando International Airport
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today that it will implement ground stops at Florida’s busiest airport due to a lack of flight controllers due to the federal shutdown. The move is expected to cause even more major delays and disruptions at Orlando International Airport for travelers flying in and out of one of the country’s major destinations. The airport is already labeled one of the ten worst in the US in most lists, and this latest snag is sure to make the normally poor experience even worse.
Every March and November, America reenacts one of its strangest magic tricks: we lose an hour, then months later we find it again behind the couch cushions of November, dusty but intact, like the coins that fell out of our pockets back in the 1980s when people still used cash.
No Falcon Heavy Launches From The Cape In 2025 Is Part of the Fallout
Astrobotic has announced that its Griffin-1 lunar mission is now targeting July 2026, a shift that gives engineers time to complete propulsion integration and qualify the lander’s engines. Their update, published today, also outlines steady progress on systems from tanks to software as the company prepares to deliver multiple payloads to the Moon’s south-polar Nobile region.
With this news, any chance of a Falcon Heavy launch from Kennedy Space Center in 2025 is now kaput.
Starship Flight 11 lifts off from Boca Chica, Texas this eveningPhoto: Chris Leymarie, Florida Media Now SpaceX launched its eleventh integrated flight of the Starship and Super Heavy booster system on Monday evening from Boca Chica…
SpaceX is set to launch Starship Flight 11 today from its Boca Chica, Texas, facility, on a test flight that potentially carries major implications for Florida’s Space Coast. As the company eyes future Starship operations from…
Low Earth orbit has become a crowded neighborhood. Once home to a handful of satellites and orbital research stations, it’s now filled with tens of thousands of objects—many no longer serving any purpose. From working satellites to broken pieces of metal, dead rocket stages, and microscopic paint flecks, space debris hurtles around Earth at 17,000 miles per hour.
David Gives Uriah a Letter for Joab, 1619. Pieter Lastman (Amsterdam 1583 – 1633 Amsterdam)
The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach is now home to a major exhibition titled Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection, marking the most extensive presentation of The Leiden Collection ever shown in the United States. The Leiden Collection is among the largest and most important collections of seventeenth-century Dutch art in private hands, and many of its paintings are rarely seen. This new exhibition gives art lovers a chance to see many of the Leiden Collection works up close and in person. For many, this is a chance not to be missed.
Located at 1450 S. Dixie Highway, the exhibition runs during regular museum hours: Thursdays through Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $18 for adults, with discounts available for students, seniors, and children.
Things aren’t going so well on a Florida-bound cruise. A gastrointestinal illness outbreak has struck Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas, sickening close to 100 individuals during its 13-night voyage from San Diego to Miami. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 98 passengers and one crew member have reported symptoms consistent with norovirus, including vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal cramping. Norovirus is a highly contagious virus often linked to outbreaks on cruise ships.
At 12:01 AM ET this morning, the federal government officially entered a shutdown after Congress failed to pass a continuing resolution funding key agencies. The shutdown’s effects reach far, and here on the Space Coast, the heart of America’s space program at Kennedy Space Center, the pain was felt instantly.
