Boeing’s Starliner
spacecraft will deliver
and return with cargo
from the International
Space Station.
NASA/BOEING
SUMMER 2022: 23
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
CELEBRATES 60 YEARS
ups and downs but the two remain constant to each other
as they face the next chapter of their lives.
“Space has been a legacy base, but what has happened is
that it has diversified,” said Lynda Weatherman, president
and CEO of the Economic Development Commission of
Florida’s Space Coast.
“We were once essentially a launch location, but now we
have launches, assembly of launch vehicles and payloads.”
Huntsville, Alabama, won the bid for the U.S. Space
Command Headquarters, but Brevard continues to attract
the space industry by pivoting quickly to meet the needs
of these corporations.
“The time is right for us to locate our space headquarters
where so much of our space history was made over the
past six decades and where so much history awaits,”
said Leanne Caret, former president and chief executive
officer of Boeing Defense, Space & Security in 2019,
when the company made the decision to relocate space
headquarters from Arlington, Virginia, to Brevard.
“This storied Florida space community will be the center
of gravity for Boeing’s space programs as we continue to
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ULA
United Launch Alliance, long a major player in the space program, provides rocket
launch operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.