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Record Group Number: 000795
Series/Collection Number: .S 1930
Creator: Spaceport Florida Authority.
Title, Dates: Correspondence and subject files, 1988-1998.
Amount: 10 cubic ft.
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Organization/Arrangement: Correspondence is arranged primarily in chronological order, although some correspondence is arranged alphabetically.  Subject files are interfiled for some years within a specific time frame.
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Summary:   This series contains correspondence files, subject files, newspaper clippings, press releases, and fact sheets documenting the administration, programs, and activities of Spaceport Florida.  The correspondence files typically contain letters and memorandums which are primarily administrative in nature.  Much of the correspondence deals with the creation and expansion of the agency and covers such topics as staffing, equipment, leases, financial activities, development of programs,  exhibits and presentations, and legal and legislative correspondence. 




    This series also contains numerous subject files.  These files cover many space industry  topics such as:  launch support facilities, launch infrastructure, space commerce, space tourism, the International Space Station, next generation expendable launch vehicles (ELV's),  the Apollo/Saturn V Center Museum,  NASA funding,  and the Titan IV rocket motor facility at Camp Blanding. 

    Of special interest are the many reports and position papers such as the Governor's Commission on Space, the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC), the Commercial Space Advisory Committee (CSAC), and the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy.  Also of interest are reports detailing the history and growth of space development in Florida, especially the early history of Cape Canaveral and the Mercury Space Program; single stage to orbit programs; and the X-33 program. 

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Subject Access Fields: Spaceports Florida.
Rocketry.
Space sciences.
Launch vehicles (Astronautics)
Launch complexes (Astronautics)
Space industrialization Florida.
Cape Canaveral (Fla.)
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