Our views: An emerging market, editorial, Florida Today
“Suborbital flights that would carry passengers, experiments and satellites from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, launching a new job-creation industry here. The potential was the focus of attention Monday at a University of Central Florida conference that brought together industry leaders to discuss ways to advance the initiative. It’s a smart move and one that Space Florida, the state’s space-development agency, is correctly pressing as part of its strategy to diversify the space industry with the shuttle’s retirement imminent.”

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