The future we remember never stopped being built here in Florida. 🚀 💫

Space Florida traveled to Montreal this week for a roundtable with CAE — exploring what global aerospace partnership looks like in action. Our work with CAE USA has been growing since 2017, from their Tampa headquarters to their 235,000 sq ft campus. The Florida Model isn't just a domestic story. It's a global one.

Space Florida and @flventure are thrilled to announce the winners of $150,000 in investment from this year's Early Stage Venture Conference. The conference featured 32 selected companies from a highly competitive pool of applicants across the state. A panel of judges evaluated each company based on innovation, market opportunity, and alignment with Florida’s targeted high-growth sectors, including aerospace, defense, and emerging technologies. Read more about the event and winners here: spaceflorida.gov/news/florid…

This week, we announced Project Manta, a strategic investment in @Seagate_Space to prototype and demonstrate key elements of the company's innovative offshore launch infrastructure system. The project marks an important step toward advancing future development and manufacturing capabilities in Florida's growing aerospace ecosystem. Thank you to @anjelicamrubin and the @TBBJnewsroom for highlighting this exciting partnership! bizjournals.com/tampabay/new…

Thank you to Walt Jackim from @USSpaceForce for an incredible update on the infrastructure development needed to support our national security missions. Florida's spaceport system is a national strategic asset, and we're committed to working with our federal partners to build what the mission demands.

It’s fantastic to have a strong partner in @NASAKennedy Director @brianhughes! Thank you for giving an update at our Board of Directors meeting in Orlando today - we look forward to working closely to strengthen the industry and develop the infrastructure that will support the rapid expansion of the industry in Florida and across the nation.

On the International Space Station, researchers are exploring how heart cells grow in microgravity—insights that could one day support regenerative medicine and replacement tissues.

Your phone. Your car. Your laptop.  They all rely on semiconductors—and space research could make them even better.  In microgravity, scientists are exploring how crystals form in ways that may improve performance, efficiency, and reliability here on Earth.

The next time someone asks “why do we need to go to space?” remind them: cancer research, water filtration, GPS, weather forecasting, and the entire internet's timing infrastructure all came from space.

We pause today to honor, remember, and reflect on the sacrifice of our nation’s heroes.

What happens in space starts here on the ground. At Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility, aerodynamic testing helps improve vehicle safety systems, advance autonomy, and validate technologies built for both Earth and orbit. The work happening in Florida is shaping how we move—on the ground and beyond it.

50 years ago today, the Launch and Landing Facility had its very first landing — one that would make it one of the most iconic runways in the world.

When every second counts, space makes a difference.  Satellite constellations are helping pinpoint distress locations faster, while emerging rocket delivery systems could dramatically speed up emergency response in hard-to-reach areas.

Space research gave us memory foam, scratch-resistant lenses, and advances in MRI technology. The next huge medical breakthrough could be developed in microgravity.

The call you made. The show you streamed. The news you read. It all moved through space first.

Lost without your GPS? So would every airline, every shipping company, and every emergency responder on Earth. Space systems provide the positioning, navigation, and timing data that powers everything from airline routes and global shipping to emergency response, banking, and everyday payments.

You've used space technology at least a dozen times today. You just didn't notice. That's how seamlessly space has become part of life on Earth. And we're just getting started.

On May 15, 1963, Gordon Cooper lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Faith 7 — the final flight of Project Mercury and the last time an American would fly to space alone for nearly 60 years. Cooper orbited Earth 22 times in a 34- hour mission that closed out Mercury and opened the door to Gemini✨ #America250FL

Communities that once had no access to the internet now do — because of satellites. Remote learning. Telemedicine. Connection. Space is closing gaps across the globe.

What happens to the human body after time in space?  When astronauts return to gravity, scientists study the effects—insights that could help improve how we treat vertigo, concussions, and even conditions like osteoporosis and age-related bone loss. instagram.com/reels/DXPo0EME…

Florida's aerospace workforce starts here — in the classroom. Space Florida is proud to partner with Okaloosa County School District to launch the Space Florida Academy Program, connecting high school students to high-demand, high-wage aerospace careers.