Central Florida’s space industry is filled with wonder and potential

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“We saw the International Space Station!” my wife texted me one evening while on a recent trip to Auburn, New York, with our kids. To my daughters, the small blinking light crossing the night sky must have seemed like a plane, not a state-of-the-art microgravity laboratory traveling over 17,000 miles per hour around Earth.

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Still, the wonder was in their eyes when they realized astronauts nearly 250 miles up might be waving down at the small town of 26,000 residents.

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It’s also a wonder that even in Central Florida where theme parks bring the fantastical to life, there’s still something special about the mystery and marvels that only space can create for the everyday observer — and especially for those who do business in it.

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