Florida Gubernatorial Candidate McCollum Promises Support to Space Coast

Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center

McCollum’s Space Coast visit ends with space briefing
Florida Today

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum ended a day of campaigning on the Space Coast with a briefing from local space industry leaders.

“There’s no place I will turn more attention to immediately than bringing businesses and jobs and opportunities to the Space Coast,” promised McCollum, Florida’s attorney general. “There just won’t be.”

At the round table discussion in Cape Canaveral organized by the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast, about a dozen the local space leaders explained the opportunity for KSC to diversify beyond launch operations, to not just fly payloads but to design and manage them and service the space station as a National Lab…

Millionaire businessman Rick Scott, McCollum’s main primary opponent, last weekend held a space-related meeting at Brevard Community College. The EDC earlier this year held a space briefing for Democratic candidate Alex Sink, the state’s chief financial officer.

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