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RESOLUTION NO. 08-170
A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE FLORIDA
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO ENCOURAGE THE
AOMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION TO REALIZE THE NATIONAL
STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING
SPACEFLIGHT EXPERTISE AT THE KENNEDY SPACE
CENTER AND ENSURING THAT FUTURE CREW AND CARGO
LOGISTIC MiSSIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION USE OOMESTIC CAPABILITIES
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie
County, Florida, has made the following determinations:
1. The united States has a strategic interest in maintaining
the hation's preeminence in spaceflight; the spaceflight expertise
at the Kennedy Space Center is a center of excellence that should
be maintained; and the United States has obligations to provide
crew and cargo logistic services to the International Space
Station.
2. Until the Constellation Program reaches operational
status, the United States currently plans to substantially fulfill
those obligations by purchasing logistic services; and these plans
make the United States largely dependent for a five year period or
more in obtaining access to the International Space Station.
3. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has
executed Space Act Agreements under the Commercial Orbital
Transportation Services
(COTS)
Program to foster domestic
commercial capability to provide crew and cargo logistics to the
International Space Station; the COTS program provides for four
different cargo and crew logistic capabilities known as
including but not limited to COTS Capability D.
3. This Board does hereby further request the Florida
Congressional Delegation as a whole urge the Administrator of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration to fully utilize the
demonstrated excellence of the Kennedy Space Center for the
integration and launch of these crew and cargo logistic operations.
4. The County Administrator is hereby directed to forward a
copy of this resolution to the State of Florida Congressional
Delegation.
After motion and second the vote on this resolution was as
follows:
Chairman Joseph E. Smith AYE
Vice-Chairman Paula A. Lewis AYE
Commissioner Doug Coward AYE
Commissioner Chris Craft AYE
Commissioner Charles Grande AYE
PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED this 27th day of May, 2008.
ATTEST:
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA
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