Florida Leaders, AAR, Space Coast Business Community Say Over 39-Thousand Florida Jobs At Stake
Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), AAR Chairman and CEO David P. Storch, leaders from the Space Coast business community and more than 250 local workers rallied Monday at the AAR Airlift facility in Melbourne to warn about the threat to U.S. economic and military strength posed by $500 billion in sequestration budget cuts scheduled for January 2013. A study commissioned by AIA last year found that Florida could lose as many as 39,246 jobs if Congress does not act to stop these cuts.
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On the 27th day of June, 1982 the Space Shuttle program was slightly more than 14 months old. For those of us who were there to see first Shuttle launches, we were sure that we were witnessing flights of what NASA called “the primary space vehicle for the foreseeable future.” None of us, however, ever imagined that "the foreseeable future" would come and go in just three short decades.
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces that its Merlin 1D engine has achieved a full mission duration firing and multiple restarts at target thrust and specific impulse (Isp). The engine firing was for 185 seconds with 147,000 pounds of thrust, the full duration and power required for a Falcon 9 rocket launch. The tests took place at SpaceX's rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas.
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