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Organizations like Space Florida have worked to rebuild the Space Coast’s economy after the end of the Space Shuttle program back in 2011.

SpaceX’s Transporter-3 mission has a 29-minute launch window that opens Thursday at 10:25 a.m., with a scheduled booster landing back at Cape Canaveral.

It begins on Thursday with the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

This includes a pair of launches from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the first of which is scheduled for Saturday night.

She made the claims in an essay published on Lioness, an online platform that publishes whistleblower accounts. SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment.

The plan is to have it crash into the asteroid in September 2022.

The astronauts were at the International Space Station and splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola.

SpaceX bumped the departure to Monday afternoon, with a nighttime return.

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule has launched three astronaut missions since last year, but Boeing is still trying to certify its vehicle for human spaceflight.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the uptick in activity, including launches from private sector companies, will usher in a "whole new era of space activity."

The Inspiration4 crew safely returned to Earth Saturday evening after three days of orbiting the planet. It is the first all-civilian mission to orbit.

On this week's "The Florida Roundup," we talk about how Gov. DeSantis wants to end city and county vaccine mandates and the Florida Standards Assessment; a lawsuit seeks more transparency from the state in releasing COVID-19 data; and an all-civilian space crew.