Port Canaveral Mulls Rail Connection
• Port Canaveral is pushing ahead with a plan that could add a rail connection to the port. The plan involves leasing a rail yard from the Kennedy Space Center.
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• Port Canaveral is pushing ahead with a plan that could add a rail connection to the port. The plan involves leasing a rail yard from the Kennedy Space Center.
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• Space industry advocates are lobbying lawmakers in Tallahassee today. One of their goals is for the state to encourage more private companies to come to Florida.
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• NASA’s new spacecraft is back home at Kennedy Space Center after its first test flight earlier this month. The next step now is to understand all of the data Orion gathered during its two orbits around Earth, and that will take years.
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• https://wmfeimages.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Brendan_Byrne_Spaceview_Park.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSNASA’s new spacecraft Orion will launch Friday, after technical and weather delays this morning.
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• The Republicans’ new majority in Congress coincides with transition for the space program and Central Florida Congressman Bill Posey says that might mean more money for space.
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• Central Florida Congressman Bill Posey says bureaucracy is hindering Kennedy Space Center’s transformation into a multi-user spaceport. His comments are in response to a government report urging KSC to address its shortcomings as competition grows.
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• NASA has finished building the crew module of its newest spacecraft- Orion. The spacecraft was moved out of the Kennedy Space Center facility Thursday where engineers have been getting it ready. Orion’s cone-shaped crew module, stacked on top of a white service module, emerged from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on a special flat bed transporter. It was moved to a new facility where it will be fueled up with ammonia and hyper propellants for its test flight slated for December. The crew capsule can seat four astronauts. December’s mission- an unmanned flight about 3,600 miles into space- will be used to test out Orion’s safety features. Eventually NASA aims to send Orion on missions to deep space- an asteroid …
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