Space Florida is attempting to reclaim 150 acres of land considered excess at Cape Canaveral for commercial space purposes.
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According to Aviation Week:
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_09_24_2012_p0-499049.xml&p=1 (http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_09_24_2012_p0-499049.xml&p=1)
With an eye toward developing a commercial spaceport, Florida has asked NASA to transfer 150 acres of land north of the shuttle launch pads and the shuttle runway to Space Florida, the state’s aerospace development agency.
“Florida believes that the properties identified in this request are excess to the needs of the U.S. government,†Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll, who is also chairwoman of Space Florida, wrote in letter to NASA chief Charles Bolden and Ray LaHood, secretary of Department of Transportation, which oversees commercial space transportation in the United States.
Some of the requested land is believed to be owned by Florida, which lays claim to about 56,000 acres of the 140,000 acres that comprise the Kennedy Space Center and the surrounding Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
The federal government was allowed use of the land for the national space program, with the caveat that it would revert back to the state if it was no longer needed for NASA’s purposes.
The letter, dated Sept. 20, was posted on the state’s Sunburst public records website.
This could have been the letter the U.S. Government sent to the Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll?
Dear Jennifer Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. :P
As a sovereign state, it ALL rightfully belongs to Florida... As a rabid Southerner the land is a birthright, Florida is our collective principal, the Federal Government is only the agent of the principal. Nothing more.
DEO VINDICE Y'ALL!
Quote from: Ocklawaha on September 28, 2012, 09:48:38 PM
As a sovereign state, it ALL rightfully belongs to Florida... As a rabid Southerner the land is a birthright, Florida is our collective principal, the Federal Government is only the agent of the principal. Nothing more.
DEO VINDICE Y'ALL!
What you said is true but NASA isn't dead so the power hungry jerks in Tallahassee can still stick it for now! And look if Willard Mitt Romney gets in you can have Florida I'm gone!
lol
Quote from: NotNow on September 28, 2012, 11:51:19 PM
lol
You are ignoring this user. NotNow this is one of the best things metrojacksonville has goodbye.
I'm always impressed with the " if so and so gets elected I am OUT of here" crowd. Straighten out yer panties.
Quote from: NotNow on September 29, 2012, 12:00:31 AM
I'm always impressed with the " if so and so gets elected I am OUT of here" crowd. Straighten out yer panties.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
STILL...LOL
While this is a bit strayed from the topic here....
I did meet a "if he is elected I am outta here" guy. Bush got elected and he put in for a transfer in his company and moved himself and his family to England where he ran a European division for 8 years and when Obama got elected, he put in his transfer to come back. He has since moved back. Not sure what he will do if Obama loses.
On the "excess land" issue, this is probably more of a political pressure thing from the Space Florida delegation. With the cuts in the NASA budget by the Obama Administration, and no major launches planned on the Pad 39 complex for years to come, they are essentially calling the Administration out by forcing them to either increase funding to NASA or give us the land back so they can use it.
Interesting development. Not likely for Feds to give up the NASA land, but it does create a pressure point in the future if they keep cutting the budget.
Quote from: spuwho on September 30, 2012, 08:03:15 PM
While this is a bit strayed from the topic here....
I did meet a "if he is elected I am outta here" guy. Bush got elected and he put in for a transfer in his company and moved himself and his family to England where he ran a European division for 8 years and when Obama got elected, he put in his transfer to come back. He has since moved back. Not sure what he will do if Obama loses.
On the "excess land" issue, this is probably more of a political pressure thing from the Space Florida delegation. With the cuts in the NASA budget by the Obama Administration, and no major launches planned on the Pad 39 complex for years to come, they are essentially calling the Administration out by forcing them to either increase funding to NASA or give us the land back so they can use it.
Interesting development. Not likely for Feds to give up the NASA land, but it does create a pressure point in the future if they keep cutting the budget.
Thank You for your speak the truth unlike NotNow aka EverAgain. :)
Lighten up IILy. You take your politics WAY too seriously. Grown ups can disagree.
As for NASA, I hope a future administration sees the importance of developing such technology more clearly.
Who knows what the game is exactly, but the state is saying pretty clearly that in the face of this multi-billion dollar shuttle-shaped hole in our economy, the only thing that will fill it is either the feds stepping back up or letting something comparable develop. I don't think we should underestimate what NASA has done for our state.