Bill Text: FL S1896 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Commercial, Civil, Military, or Academic Endeavors [CPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-05-05 - Signed by Officers and filed with Secretary of State [S1896 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1896-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                    SM 1896 
 
By Senator Altman 
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1                           Senate Memorial 
2         A memorial to the Congress of the United States, 
3         urging Congress to support any commercial, civil, 
4         military, or academic endeavor, including job training 
5         and placement, which will enable the United States 
6         space program to maintain, to the greatest extent 
7         possible, our nation’s only human space flight 
8         workforce. 
9 
10         WHEREAS, the space shuttle first began flying from Florida 
11  in 1981, and 
12         WHEREAS, Florida is the home of the nation’s only human 
13  space flight workforce, and 
14         WHEREAS, our nation’s prowess in space suffered when the 
15  Apollo program was abruptly terminated, followed by a lengthy 
16  gap in time before the onset of the Space Shuttle Program, and 
17         WHEREAS, this nation did not sufficiently facilitate 
18  alternate commercial, civil, military, or academic endeavors, 
19  including job training and placement, in Florida to preserve the 
20  skills of the Apollo workforce so that they could be put to use 
21  on the Space Shuttle Program, and 
22         WHEREAS, the unemployed, highly skilled Apollo workforce 
23  was forced to dissipate and find employment elsewhere, and 
24         WHEREAS, the Space Shuttle Program was forced, in large 
25  part and at great expense, to use a new and untested workforce 
26  for space shuttle launch operations, and 
27         WHEREAS, the Space Shuttle Program is slated to retire in 
28  2010 and there is currently a gap of at least 5 years between 
29  space shuttle retirement and the next American human space 
30  flight, and 
31         WHEREAS, the United States should not repeat the mistakes 
32  made at the end of the Apollo program, NOW, THEREFORE, 
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34  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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36         That the United States Congress is urged to facilitate any 
37  commercial, civil, military, or academic endeavor, including job 
38  training and placement, which will maintain this nation’s highly 
39  skilled human space flight operations workforce, which currently 
40  resides in Florida. 
41         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be 
42  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the 
43  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the 
44  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of 
45  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.