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Space odyssey

机译：太空漫游

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Alex Hannaford finds out more about Melbourne International Airport's aerospace ambitions as Florida's self-proclaimed 'Space Coast' bids to reinvent itself after the end of NASA's space shuttle programme. ASA staff in Florida will never forget the date July 21, 2011, as it officially marked the end of its 30-year Space Shuttle programme. Indeed, when the Space Shuttle 'Atlantis' emerged in the night sky above Cape Canaveral, there was the inevitable sadness at witnessing the historic end to the programme, but also unease about what next for the 8,000 employees about to be made redundant. Almost two years on, while Florida's Space Coast — a palm-fringed region that encompasses Kennedy Space Center and Cocoa Beach, and which was for so long synonymous with the space programme — has been affected by the biting global recession, nobody could have predicted its tenacious ability to fight to rebuild its aerospace and aviation sector. According to Lynda Weatherman, president and CEO of the Space Coast Economic Development Commission (EDC), it had had some time to prepare for its reinvention, as former US president, George W Bush, warned that the Space Shuttle programme would be coming to an end as long ago as 2004. In short, NASA would pull out of sending astronauts into low-earth orbit, leaving that to the private sector, and instead focus on future manned missions to Mars and an asteroid, via the Orion project. "To me, it said there was going to be a gap - we just didn't know how deep or how long. But we had seven years to prepare," admits Weatherman, who reveals that the Space Coast EDC almost immediately set about telling its story and attempting to raise funds in order to mitigate the inevitable. "Did I know back then that we'd be quite so successful as we have been?" muses Weatherman. "Well, I can't tell you I was confident in 2004, but we had a plan at least, and we couldn't afford to worry about what happened next."
机译：亚历克斯·汉纳福德（Alex Hannaford）进一步了解了墨尔本国际机场的航空野心，因为佛罗里达州自称为“太空海岸”的提议是在NASA航天飞机计划结束后重塑自己。佛罗里达州ASA员工永远不会忘记2011年7月21日这一日期，因为它正式标志着其30年航天飞机计划的结束。的确，当“亚特兰蒂斯”号航天飞机出现在卡纳维拉尔角上空的夜空时，目睹该计划的历史性结束不可避免地令人沮丧，但同时也使接下来要为8000名员工裁员感到不安。差不多两年了，虽然佛罗里达州的太空海岸-一个充满肯尼迪航天中心和可可海滩的棕榈树环绕的地区，长期以来一直是太空计划的代名词-受到了严峻的全球衰退的影响，但没人能预料到坚强的战斗力，以重建其航空航天业。据太空海岸经济发展委员会（EDC）总裁兼首席执行官Lynda Weatherman称，它有一段时间为重塑做准备，因为美国前总统乔治·W·布什（George W Bush）警告说，航天飞机计划即将实施。最早在2004年就结束了。简而言之，美国宇航局将退出将宇航员送入低地球轨道，而将其留给私人部门，而是通过Orion项目专注于未来的载人火星和小行星飞行任务。韦瑟曼承认：“对我来说，这将是一个缺口-我们只是不知道有多深或多久。但是我们还有七年的准备时间。”他透露，太空海岸EDC几乎马上就开始讲述它的故事，并试图筹集资金以减轻不可避免的情况。 “那时候我知道我们会取得如此成功吗？”缪斯天气预报员。 “好吧，我不能告诉你我对2004年充满信心，但至少我们有一个计划，我们不能担心接下来会发生什么。”

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    《Airport world》 |2013年第2期|32-34|共3页
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