Topic: Florida

Orlando Florida - thrill rides

Myself, my husband and two daughters (then aged 13 and 10) visited Florida in the summer of 2009 and we had a blast. *** Watch out for the digital read out at the end of the ride that tells you the speed ...
Research would show that Florida it is believed was first inhabited a few thousand years before the arrival of the early european. A Spanish discoverer named Juan Ponce de Leon landed on the Florida coast in fifteen thirteen and claimed it for ...
It was a long flight from Florida to Oregon, but onemust-see if you?re ever near Salem or Portland is the Evergreen Aviation & We entered the museum and oneof the very first things I wanted to climb into was the original Howard ...

Space City

Water could be seen for miles around as Thomas floated in his small kayak. Thomas did not even blink as he pulled himself up the side 15 feet and aboard, quickly started looking for a specific kind of cargo container. A lot ...

Throttle Down

Florida residents live with uncertainty and vulnerability. Those living along the Space Coast-primarily in Brevard County-have a new storm to weather, though like Florida's hurricanes, it's nothing they haven't seen before. When President Richard Nixon announced the end of the Apollo program ...
The external fuel tank for what could be the last mission of NASA's space shuttle program rolled into an assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday (Sept. 28). Technicians at Kennedy will now process and stack the tank in ...

Florida senator seeks tax breaks for space ventures

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, proposed on Tuesday legislation that would introduce tax breaks for investments in commercial space ventures to offset job losses from the end of the U.S. space shuttle program.Florida, where the ...
Atlas rocket carrying military satellite that transmits in real time launches into orbitAn Atlas 5 rocket carrying a national security communications satellite is in orbit after an early morning launch.The rocket launched at 7:07 a.m. Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...

Florida Holiday Variety

Whether you want to wrestle alligators in the everglades, party on Miami Beach or want to be a kid again at Disney world, Florida has it all! With such a variety of sights and activities it's no wonder that Florida is one ...
Space shuttle's contractor laying off 1,400 workers in the fall as part of planned reductionsThe private contractor that handles the bulk of the work servicing NASA's space shuttle fleet is notifying 1,400 employees in Florida, Texas and Alabama that they will be ...