Space, Science & Florida
Updated: Dec 2, 2021
As someone born and raised in Florida, trips to Kennedy Space Center are nearly akin to trips to Disney World, and the space industry is an essential part of the state's history and culture. While I quickly realized I don't have the guts to be an astronaut during kid astronaut training in fourth grade, my fascination with space exploration, science and Florida's environment remains.
Here are some of my favorite space and science stories.
Space exploration
Supercluster: Communicating the Apocalypse
Ties run deep between Disney and space exploration
NASA at 62: A look back at some of the women who built the space agency
Bill Nye's solar sail project launches to space aboard Falcon heavy rocket
Everything to know about Mars 2020 Perseverance mission, just launched from Florida
Former NASA scientist: We found life on Mars in the 1970s
NASA solar probe traveled closer to the sun than any other spacecraft. Here's what it found
10 space exploration events we're excited for in the 2020s
As NASA retires Spitzer telescope, a look back at some of its most incredible cosmic images
Rocket launches and NASA missions
'Mars, here we come!' SpaceX Starship test flight a success after explosive landing
Meet the astronauts: NASA, Pence name first Artemis astronauts for future moon missions
Crew 1: SpaceX, NASA launch more astronauts to International Space Station
History made: SpaceX, NASA launch American astronauts from US soil aboard Crew Dragon
Before historic launch, NASA talks future of commercializing low-Earth orbit
How Crew Dragon compares to 8 other spaceships that have carried humans
What astronauts can teach us about coping with isolation during the coronavirus pandemic
Other science stories
5 pilot whales beach themselves on Redington Beach
Researchers: T-rex had built-in air conditioning
Paris museum debuts 'The Blob' organism with no brain, 720 sexes
Scientists say they found a way to make oxygen out of Moon dust
Study: Deepwater Horizon spill larger and deadlier than originally thought