Titusville Talking Points October 2016
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Regional News
Titusville Chamber Honors the 2016-2017 Outstanding Young Adults
The Outstanding Young Adult program is sponsored by Community Credit Union and Jess Parrish Medical Foundation. Each year 6 seniors from each Titusville area high school is awarded a certificate of accomplishment. Those eighteen students then compete in an essay contest for a monetary prize to be used for educational purposes. Announcing the 2016-17 Outstanding… [Continue Reading]
Space Budgets, Policy, Missions, Benefits, International Updates
Asteroid Redirect Mission: NASA provides update on Asteroid Redirect Mission While the U.S. Congress doubts the value of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission, some policymakers and planners remain steadfast to the contributions it could make to human deep space exploration, science and fending off near-Earth asteroids with the potential to impact the Earth. ARM would visit… [Continue Reading]
Commercial Space Transportation
ISS Resupply: Company sets October launch date to resupply space station NASA and Orbital ATK have set Oct. 9-13 as the launch period for the Dulles, Va.-based company’s next NASA-contracted re-supply mission to the InternationalSpace Station. The mission will mark Orbital ATK’s return to NASA’s Wallops Island Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore as a launch site…. [Continue Reading]
Orion and Space Launch System
Orion Heat Shield at KSC: Orion heat shield arrives at Kennedy Space Center The heat shield for the late 2018 test flight of NASA’s Orion crew exploration capsule is now at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center launch site for integration. The upcoming uncrewed test flight, Exploration Mission-1, will send Orion around the moon and back to Earth… [Continue Reading]
International Space Station
Tool Competition for ISS: Design a 3-D Printed Tool for Astronauts to Use Aboard the Space Station The ISS Design Challenge, sponsored by Mouser Electronics, offers an opportunity for college students to suggest tools for International Space Station astronauts. Top concepts could be manufactured with 3-D printing hardware aboard the six person orbiting science laboratory…. [Continue Reading]
Congress – NASA Budget
NASA Authorization Bill: Senate panel authorizes money for Mars mission, shuttle replacement In a bid to stabilize the nation’s civil space endeavors across a transition in U.S. presidential administrations, the Senate Commerce Committee has passed a bipartisan measure that authorizes a $19.5 billion 2017 budget to continue work on a human Mars mission and efforts… [Continue Reading]
2016 Elections – Human Space Exploration Update
Clinton and Trump on Space: Clinton supports human Mars exploration Presidential contender Hillary Clinton pledged support for the human exploration of Mars in response to a questionnaire from ScienceDebate.org. Clinton did not elaborate on possible changes to current strategy that calls for a human presence in the Martian environs by the mid-2030s. Rival Donald Trump expressed… [Continue Reading]
September 2016 North Brevard Business Review
ACT 2 Technologies announces plans to build a manufacturing facility in the Spaceport Commerce Park; Florida’s timber industry has significant economic impact on North Brevard; and Area construction firms set to start work on major projects – locally and beyond. [gview file=”https://titusville.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Business-Review-Newsletter-NBEDZ-Summer-2016.pdf”]
Titusville: Outdoor Adventure Meets Space and Technology (Sky Magazine)
Read the full Sky magazine article (July 2016) More news from the City of Titusville