Chamber Trip to China (Oct. 8-16, 2017)
REGISTER FOR THE TRIP! The Titusville Area Chamber of Commerce is following up a successful trip to China in 2011, with another this year! Join us for a 9-day excursion as we visit Beijing, Shanghai and Xi’an, October 8-16th. The trip includes 4-5 star hotel accommodations, 3 meals a day, and English-speaking tour guides and… [Continue Reading]
Education Committee Update – January 2017
After a successful Career Fair on November 17, 2016, we have moved on to the next event for the Education Committee. We sent out nominations for Partners in the Business of Education before the schools went on winter break. Each school may nominate up to 3 businesses that have helped them throughout the year…. [Continue Reading]
2017 Taste of Titusville Food Extravaganza and Business Expo
Titusville, January 26, 2017 – Planning for the 2017 Taste of Titusville Event is underway! The event is scheduled for Tuesday, March 21st from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. and will once again be held at Searstown Mall. This is a favorite local event that local businesses will not want to miss! Taste tickets SELL OUT at… [Continue Reading]
Titusville Talking Points January 2017
Video now available! [gview file=”https://titusville.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Talking-Points-January-2017.pdf”] More news from the City of Titusville
Space Budgets, Policy, Missions, Benefits, International Updates
Human Missions to Mars: Why Mars is the best planet The passage of time, four billion years, has separated Mars and the Earth. The two planets may once have exhibited similar conditions, including temperate environments. However, while life thrived on the Earth, Mars turned cold and desert-like. The red planet may hold answers to why… [Continue Reading]
Commercial Space Transportation
Contracts for Boeing and SpaceX: Boeing and SpaceX win four more NASA orders for space taxis, with one big ‘if’ NASA has agreed to purchase four more crew launches to the International Space Station from Boeing and SpaceX — if their spacecraft achieve agency certification. Each company had contracts for two flights previously. The two companies… [Continue Reading]
Orion and Space Launch System
Orion in 2017: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-readies-for-major-orion-milestones-in-2017 SLS Rocket Test Stand: Huge NASA rocket test stand constructed in 2.5 years | Time-lapse video Video offers the latest on the lengthy construction of a NASA Marshall Space Center test stand to help prepare the Space Launch System rocket for its first test flight in late 2018. SLS is a… [Continue Reading]
International Space Station
Scott Kelly: PBS to document Scott Kelly after historic Space Station stay in ‘Beyond a Year in Space’ PBS plans a follow-on documentary detailing NASA astronaut Scott Kelly’s return to Earth, following a 340-day mission to the International Space Station in 2015-16. Beyond a Year in Space promises to look into the health challenges of… [Continue Reading]
President-elect Trump – Transition
NASA Transition Leadership: Lightfoot to be acting NASA administrator, CFO Radzanowski to stay on President Obama and his administration, including NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Deputy Administrator Dava Newman, leave office on January 20. President-elect Trump has not designated successors, who will face U.S. Senate confirmation. During the interim, long-time NASA civil servant Robert Lightfoot, now the… [Continue Reading]
Space Heroes
Gene Cernan: Eugene Cernan, last human to walk on moon, dies at 82 Gene Cernan, who commanded Apollo 17, NASA’s final human moon landing mission in December 1972, died Monday afternoon, in a Houston hospital following ongoing health issues. Cernan made the lunar journey twice, serving first as lunar module pilot aboard the May 1969… [Continue Reading]