Looking Toward the Future

For half-a-century, Florida was the center of gravity for America’s manned space program. Now that program is essentially on hold.

Former Florida Lieutenant Governor Frank Brogan is Chancellor of the State University System. But he vividly recalls something that fired his imagination when he was a little boy.

“…a little boy who grew up as a product of Sputnik and then our subsequent race to space, who marveled with his classmates watching black and white television as Neil Armstrong planted the first human footprint on the moon.”

Which is why the grown-up Frank Brogan was nearly broken-hearted by something he saw just weeks ago.

“That Space Shuttle Discovery on the back of that 747 being transported to a museum as its final resting place.”

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