Some fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, Florida, right outside Cape Canaveral, and began reporting on rockets that fizzled as often as they soared. In "Live from Cape...
(NASA) TWENTY-THREEAN AMERICAN TRAGEDYFlorida’s rare, bone-chilling freeze stiffened and split tropical flora as fire and smoke rose from smudge pots in citrus groves. It brought the nation’s spaceport to a slow crawl in the predawn hours of January 28, 1986.For the first time anyone could rememb...