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In an interview with Space Coast Living writer Lucinda Coulter, Petro marvels at where her career has taken her and the excitement of commanding the space center and its 7,300 civil and contract employees.
Whether you are searching for a unique handmade item, a gift for those who seek adventure, something antique or coastal themed, gift certificates for dining out, a one-of-a-kind piece of art or to purchase a gift with the goal of donating to a favorite charity, the options are endless on the Space Coast.
Elaine Larsen, co-founder of Larsen Motorsports, spent almost two decades blasting down quarter-mile tracks in jet dragsters that reached speeds around 300 miles per hour.
The law firm of Platt Hopwood Russell & Cole, handles uncontested and contested family law matters, mediation in family law cases, criminal defense, personal injury and wrongful death cases.
Indulge in an evening of celestial flavors at the 3rd annual Taste of Space: Marstini Shake-Off on October 6th from 6:30PM to 9:00PM inside Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex, set against the backdrop of interstellar wonders. Open to those…
Ten-year-old Pat Duggin had a backyard seat for what he describes as free fireworks from Cape Canaveral. The son of an Air Force chief master sergeant, he has vivid memories of seeing the night sky burst into light with the Pioneer 10 probe heading toward Jupiter aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket in 1972.
Planning for a crew’s health in deep space is as essential as for a successful rocket launch, experts say. Researchers at the Florida Institute of Technology and the University of Central Florida have active roles in that work to ensure astronauts’ physical and mental health for the 140-million-mile trek from Earth to Mars. Radiation, isolation, distance, gravity fields and closed environments are the high-risk factors of all space exploration that scientists take into account while planning for the great crewed journeys.
The Hubble Space Telescope 340 miles in orbit above the Earth has mesmerized stargazers with images of the universe’s beauty and mysteries for decades and is still going strong.
The first observatory designed to be serviced in space, it is considered to be the most productive scientific instrument ever built. Hubble’s saga is as much one of high drama as it is scientific discovery. Its story arcs with tragedy, heroes and ultimate victory over the years after its launch and five service trips — all launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
It’s hard to avoid space and aeronautics topics in a magazine based on the Space Coast.
So even though this isn’t our annual aviation and space issue, we have two stories of interest to readers interested in space and aviation.
