Florida’s Aerospace Economic Development Agency is making plans to build a new commercial spaceport not far from the Kennedy Space Center – home of NASA’s now retired shuttle program. There’s just one problem: the land is already occupied. To learn more, producer Taylor Quimby caught up with Tampa Bay Times reporter Craig Pittman – who wrote about Space Florida’s proposal to build on top of an 18th century sugar factory and archaeological site called the Elliott Plantation.
Commercial Spaceport Is Being Threatened By History

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