Push to bring new Space Academy to the Space Coast
ORLANDO, Fla. — There is a push to bring the newly created United States Space Academy to our Space Coast.
Florida legislators are urging President Donald Trump and NASA to make the decision to make the Space Coast area its permanent home.
It will be a new military academy focused entirely on space.
It is expected that Trump will make the announcement to establish the United States Space Academy soon.
“It’s clear that we will need to educate and train an entire generation of skilled service members, engineers and civil operators and everything else to do what we have to do,” says President Trump as he signed the Executive Order to create the U.S. Space Academy.
And just now a bipartisan group from Congress, led by Congressman Mike Haridopolos, chair of the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, and Senator Ashley Moody, along with th…