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	Record Group Number:	000795
	Series/Collection Number:	.S 1927
	Creator:	Spaceport Florida Authority.
	Title, Dates:	Legislative proposal and development files, 1988-1996.
	Amount:	1.5 cubic ft.
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	Organization/Arrangement:	Arranged by subject.
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	Summary:	This series documents the establishment of the Spaceport Florida Authority in 1989. Records include Florida laws and bills, Florida Legislative staff analyses of bills, Florida House and Senate Journals pages, federal laws and bills, and testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives. Also of interest are correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, contracts, RFPs, lobbyist information, and reports relating to the establishment of the Spaceport Florida Authority. Especially of interest are reports and feasibility studies by the Florida Spaceport Authority and by the Office of Commercial Space Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation, detailing the need for commercial improvement in space launch infrastructure. Also of note are reports discussing international competition in launch services, especially from China, Europe (Arianespace), Russia, and Japan and the importance of the United States developing and maintaining a strong commercial expendable launch vehicle capability.
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	Associated Materials:	Series S1928, S1929, S1930, and S1931 contain related correspondence, report, meeting, project, and subject files which may be of interest to researchers studying the space sciences and the commercialization of the space industry in Florida.
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	Subject Access Fields:	Spaceports Florida. Space sciences. Launch vehicles (Astronautics) Rocketry. Launch complexes (Astronautics) Space industrialization Florida. Bills (legislative records) aat Reports. aat Clippings. aat Contracts. aat Cape Canaveral (Fla.)
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