Titusville
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Brooklyn couple first to marry in zero gravity
...that Erin Finnegan and Noah Fulmor got a little carried away with their wedding.On June 20, the Williamsburg couple went to Titusville , Fla., to board a modified 727-200 plane, which allows its passengers to experience reduced gravity in flight, and said,... |more
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Army IDs 4 soldiers killed in helicopter crash
...Campbell, Ky.; and his father and mother, Wendell and Wanda Tucker, of Titusville, Fla.; and his sister, Crystal Castaner, of Titusville, Fla.Staff Sgt. Paul R. Jackson, 33:— Jackson was a native of Lancaster, Md., and volunteered for Army service in May 1998.... |more
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NASA Awards $350,000 to Winning Astronaut Glove Designers
...Kate Mitchell, an engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The competition was held at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla., on Nov. 19. It was managed for NASA by Volanz Aerospace, a non-profit space education organization based in... |more
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$350,000 given in glove design
...two competitors sat side by side, waiting like contestants at a high school science fair. But here, at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville Thursday evening, much more was at stake: $400,000 in total prize money for designing gloves that exceeded the requirements... |more
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Florida National Guard troops train for Iraq
CAMP BLANDING — CAMP BLANDING -- Riding in the front passenger seat of an armored Humvee, Staff Sgt. Jaime Lugo calmly alerted others in the vehicle: "There is a possible IED." The Army convoy, which included Lugo and his fellow soldiers, had just gone |more
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'79 Gators: No wins, but winds of change
...didn't want to come to Florida to play in a wishbone, so we didn't have much depth there." Collinsworth, a wishbone quarterback at Titusville Astronaut High School, had already been moved to wide receiver by the time Pell got to Florida. Another wishbone quarterback,... |more
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For the love of Joni Mitchell
Singer-songwriters from across the region gather to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the release of "Court and Spark." There is no disputing that she is one of the seminal artists of our time, her influence spanning generations who, even today, are |more
