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• The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is increasing patrols to areas in an effort to lower the risk of boating related manatee deaths.
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• After launching from Kennedy Space Center, flight controllers in Houston, Texas took over the operation of Apollo mission — keeping a watchful eye on the crew and vehicle as it made the nearly quarter-million mile trip to the moon.
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• Immigration advocacy groups, churches and the city of South Miami filed a federal lawsuit against Governor Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody on Tuesday.
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• Orlando law firm Morgan and Morgan argued that the Department of Education violated a state law awarding bonuses to teachers who met certain criteria under the Best and Brightest program. The Department of Education allowed school districts to reduce the bonuses paid to teachers to account for employer taxes.
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• Since he grew up in a community of other astronaut families, Andy Aldrin thought having an astronaut father who worked for NASA “was normal.” Andy Aldrin sat with Brendan Byrnes to talk about having an astronaut dad and Apollo 11.
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• Growing up watching rocket launches and with a father working at NASA, Phil Metzger was himself launched into a career of studying space and sending up rockets himself. He sat with Brendan Byrnes to talk about how his father influenced him to become an engineer for NASA.
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• Before the Apollo missions, NASA had to learn how to live and work in space. The Mercury and Gemini programs paved the way for future moon missions.
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• On the morning of July 16, dozens of technicians and flight controllers piled into the firing room at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to count down the launch of Apollo 11’s Saturn V rocket. Among the sea of people was JoAnn Morgan –KSC’s first female engineer and the only woman in that firing room.
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• The Volusia County Council will vote tomorrow to decide the property tax rate for the upcoming fiscal year.
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• The number of manatee deaths related to boat collisions is up.
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