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Intersection Segment | Curiosity Mission Boosts KSC Profile

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August 22 2012 | WMFE -NASA is getting a lot of attention after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars successfully a little more than a year after the end of the shuttle program. The rover's journey began on Florida's Space Coast, where it launched nine months ago. This week on Intersection 90.7's Mark Simpson talked with University of Central Florida space policy experts Dale Ketcham and Josh Colwell about the Mars mission's ramifications for Florida's Space Coast, which lost thousands of jobs after the shuttle program ended. Ketcham says the buzz is very positive.

 

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