{"id":630637,"date":"2026-09-20T16:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630637\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:48:09","slug":"join-us-wednesday-as-we-discuss-ksc-space-and-central-florida-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630637\/","title":{"rendered":"Join us Wednesday as we discuss KSC, space and Central Florida \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s space program and Central Florida have been closely linked since the first rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral more than 75 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of local space history and current space news to talk about, from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, the Space Shuttle, SpaceX and Artemis. As part of the Orlando Sentinel\u2019s 150th birthday celebration, the newspaper is hosting a special forum this week to discuss the past, present and future of the region\u2019s connection to the nation\u2019s resurgent space program.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held Wednesday, Sept. 23, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Orlando Science Center\u2019s newly refurbished 8-story Dome theater.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free to attend, but you must register in advance at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/orlando-sentinels-150th-anniversary-the-space-race-tickets-1998432101211?aff=oddtdtcreator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OrlandoSentinel.com\/RSVP.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of our space panel include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Dr. Philip Metzger, now at UCF and Director, of the Stephen W. Hawking Center for Microgravity Research &amp; Education. He was formerly with NASA and cofounder of KSC\u2019s Swamp Works innovation program.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 James Draper, Director of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Derrol Nail with NASA Communications, who has been the space agency\u2019s voice of launches including Artemis I and II from Kennedy Space Center on the agency\u2019s broadcasts. He grew up in Cocoa Beach and was formerly a television journalist in Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Richard Tribou, the Sentinel\u2019s Space Editor, who has been covering all aspects of the space program in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 And former Sentinel photographer Red Huber, whose years\u2019 of coverage of the space program earned him special recognition from NASA. Huber will offer a special presentation of some of his memorable and award-winning photographs of local launches and space missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nation\u2019s space program and Central Florida have been closely linked since the first rocket blasted off from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[72,61,60,6492,43,82,1603,267720,247],"class_list":["post-630637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-science","tag-social","tag-social-business","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}