1 | House Memorial |
2 | A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging |
3 | Congress to provide sufficient funding to the National |
4 | Aeronautics and Space Administration and the John F. |
5 | Kennedy Space Center to mitigate the severe economic |
6 | impact that will result in Florida when the nation's human |
7 | space flight program ceases operations and before the new |
8 | human space flight program begins. |
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10 | WHEREAS, the United States' human space flight program is |
11 | scheduled to cease operations after September 30, 2010, and |
12 | WHEREAS, the cessation of our nation's human space flight |
13 | program will result in the loss of employment of thousands of |
14 | highly trained space flight employees in Florida, and |
15 | WHEREAS, Florida is home to thousands of suppliers and |
16 | service providers who will lose employment or vital income upon |
17 | cessation of the United States' human space flight program, and |
18 | WHEREAS, the next planned United States' human space flight |
19 | program is not scheduled to be in operation for at least 5 |
20 | years, and |
21 | WHEREAS, a gap of 5 years in human space flight programs |
22 | will result in our nation's loss of highly specialized space- |
23 | faring skills due to the dispersion of the workforce, and |
24 | WHEREAS, the United States' human space flight program has |
25 | greatly contributed to our nation's national defense and many of |
26 | today's technological advances, NOW, THEREFORE, |
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28 | Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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30 | That the Congress of the United States is urged to provide |
31 | sufficient funding to the National Aeronautics and Space |
32 | Administration and the John F. Kennedy Space Center to mitigate |
33 | the devastating economic impact to Florida's workforce and |
34 | economy due to a gap of 5 years in human space flight programs. |
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. |