July 28, 2020 – When NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this week, a 4 lb (1.8 kilogram) super-duper, innovative miniature flying machine will be riding along. It’s name is Ingenuity—and it’s a marvel of engineering. Ingenuity is designed to be the first aircraft to attempt controlled flight on… [Continue Reading]
July 9, 2020 – As an official Florida Trail Town, Titusville is a major hub in Florida bicycling and the city takes pride in the recent announcement that Florida has been named the 10th most Bicycle Friendly State in America by the League of American Bicyclists for 2019. Titusville is where three major Florida trails… [Continue Reading]
July 6 — Lockheed Martin has a significant presence in north Brevard and it’s growing. The 58,000 sq ft. building which once housed the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame will be renovated and will be used in the assembly of the Orion spacecraft, the capsule Lockheed is building for NASA’s upcoming moon missions. Located at… [Continue Reading]
Friday, May 15, 2020, is National Bike to Work Day. In Titusville, cycling trails are a big deal, with three converging trails right here. Titusville is the only place that the Coast to Coast Trail (250 miles across Florida), the St Johns River to Sea Trail (a 260 mile loop trail through 5 counties) and… [Continue Reading]
April 17, 2020 – On May 27th, two veteran U.S. Astronauts will have the honor of once again launching into space aboard an American rocket from American soil. This target launch date is the first U.S. crewed mission since the retirement of Space Shuttle in 2011. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, who have… [Continue Reading]
Meet the newest graduates of Astronaut training. Selected for training in 2017, these 11 exceptional men and women were chosen from a pool of more than 18,000 applicants. The graduates become part of a elite group of 48 astronauts currently eligible for space flight assignments. The new graduates may be assigned to missions destined for… [Continue Reading]
The Titusville Area Chamber of Commerce has partnered with several community organizations to bring our regular operations into a live format that you can view from the comfort of your own home. For upcoming webinars, please visit our Chamber Events page. To access previous webinars, follow the links below. SBDC – Business Disaster Funding Options… [Continue Reading]
NASA has let school students name all of its Mars rovers to date. NASA’s first-ever wheeled red planet explorer (deployed on Mars in July 1997) was named Sojourner. Sojourner was named by Connecticut 12-year-old Valerie Ambroise in honor of activist Sojourner Truth. Sofi Collis, a third grader from Arizona, won the competition to name Spirit… [Continue Reading]
March 2, 2020 – The Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville Metro area has scored big on the prestigious Milken Index, securing the #10 spot in the nation. “For the Space Coast to take its place in the top 10 of the Milken Institute’s Best Performing Cities is a testament to how far this community has come since the… [Continue Reading]
The North Brevard Business Review is published quarterly by the North Brevard Economic Development Zone (NBEDZ), and details developments occurring in the local economy of the City of Titusville and the surrounding communities in north Brevard County, Florida. The Zone is a special dependent district under Florida law that seeks to provide financial and technical… [Continue Reading]