Transportation
Will Florida Get Pushed Out of the New Space Age?
To keep up with SpaceX and others, the historic Space Coast must adapt to commercial needs.
In the early 1960s, the Florida Development Commission released a short film promoting Cape Canaveral and Project Mercury, the glorious human spaceflight program taking shape there. According to the well-assured narrator, the Cape—the “Moonport of the free world”—was “so well suited for its role in the space age, it is almost as though it has been destined through the centuries just for this moment in history.”