CS/HM 1199

1	House Memorial
2	A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging
3	Congress to facilitate any commercial, civil, military,
4	and academic endeavors necessary to maintain the nation's
5	only manned spaceflight operations workforce.
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7	WHEREAS, the final mission of the Apollo space program was
8	launched on July 15, 1975, from the John F. Kennedy Space Center
9	in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and
10	WHEREAS, during the interim between the Apollo and Space
11	Shuttle programs, the Space Shuttle program had to establish, at
12	great expense, a new and untested workforce for Space Shuttle
13	flight operations, and
14	WHEREAS, the first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle was
15	launched on April 12, 1981, from the John F. Kennedy Space
16	Center, and
17	WHEREAS, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program is
18	scheduled for launch on September 16, 2010, and
19	WHEREAS, the first manned flight of the Orion spacecraft,
20	the planned successor of the Space Shuttle, was not scheduled
21	for launch until 2015, and
22	WHEREAS, on February 1, 2010, the President of the United
23	States announced a proposal to cancel funding for the
24	Constellation program, including the Orion spacecraft, NOW,
25	THEREFORE,
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27	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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29	That the Legislature requests the United States Congress to
30	facilitate any commercial, civil, military, and academic
31	endeavors, including, but not limited to, job training and
32	placement, that are necessary to maintain the nation's highly
33	skilled manned spaceflight operations workforce who reside in
34	this state.
35	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
36	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
37	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
38	United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
39	the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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