Bill Text: FL S0944 | 2010 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Space Shuttle Orbiter Retirement [CPSC]

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-05-05 - Signed by Officers and filed with Secretary of State [S0944 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0944-Enrolled.html

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ENROLLED 
2010 Legislature                                          SM 944 
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2         A memorial to the Congress of the United States, 
3         urging Congress to direct that one of the retiring 
4         space shuttle orbiters be preserved and placed on 
5         permanent display at the Kennedy Space Center. 
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7         WHEREAS, the space shuttle program was a technical 
8  milestone, producing the first reusable orbital spacecraft, and 
9  has been the mainstay of the nation’s manned space flight 
10  program, and 
11         WHEREAS, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
12  launched the first space shuttle mission in 1981 from the 
13  Kennedy Space Center, the location from which all subsequent 
14  missions have been launched, and 
15         WHEREAS, since 1981, there have been over 125 shuttle 
16  missions, with the last planned shuttle flight scheduled for 
17  launch from the Kennedy Space Center in September 2010, and 
18         WHEREAS, in fiscal year 2008, the space shuttle program was 
19  responsible for approximately 15 percent of the Kennedy Space 
20  Center’s budget allocation, and more than 40,000 jobs in this 
21  state are estimated to be attributable to the space center’s 
22  operations, an indication that, in addition to its historical 
23  importance, the shuttle program has been of significant economic 
24  importance to Floridians, and 
25         WHEREAS, after the tragic losses of Challenger in 1986 and 
26  Columbia in 2003, three orbiters remain in the shuttle fleet: 
27  Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavor, NOW, THEREFORE, 
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29  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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31         That the Legislature requests the United States Congress to 
32  direct that one of the retiring space shuttle orbiters be 
33  preserved and placed on permanent display at the Kennedy Space 
34  Center. 
35         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be 
36  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the 
37  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the 
38  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of 
39  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.