Senate Bill sb2662

    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SR 2662

    By Senator Fasano





    11-1991-03

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing March 27, 2003, as

  3         "Florida Space Industry Day."

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  5         WHEREAS, Florida has been the world's premier gateway

  6  to space for human exploration, national defense, and commerce

  7  for more than 50 years, and

  8         WHEREAS, Florida's space industry is a statewide

  9  enterprise providing high-technology, high-paying jobs in

10  fields that include manufacturing, technology development,

11  services, and space tourism, and

12         WHEREAS, Florida's military space programs develop, and

13  deliver to orbit, satellites that enable intelligence

14  gathering, national defense, and the precision delivery of

15  force, and

16         WHEREAS, universities throughout this state are

17  performing leading-edge research and technology development in

18  a number of rapidly expanding fields, and

19         WHEREAS, Florida educators are applying space education

20  to create new opportunities for learning and discovery and for

21  inspiring the next generation of explorers, and

22         WHEREAS, Florida's space community is working

23  tirelessly to overcome the loss of the Columbia and her crew

24  in order to safely resume human space flight, NOW, THEREFORE,

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26  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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28         That the Florida Senate recognizes March 27, 2003, as

29  "Florida Space Industry Day," and commends Florida's space

30  industry for its contributions to the state's economy,

31  national defense, space exploration, and education.

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    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SR 2662
    11-1991-03




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 3  educators for their contributions to the state's economy, to

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