{"id":292201,"date":"2026-06-01T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292201\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T20:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:32:10","slug":"st-lucie-county-discusses-rocket-recovery-facility-at-port-of-fort-pierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292201\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lucie County discusses rocket recovery facility at Port of Fort Pierce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSt. Lucie County is exploring plans to make the Port of Fort Pierce a hub for rocket recovery operations, with details being discussed at a community meeting.  According to the county&#8217;s master plan, the Port of Fort Pierce could serve as a critical support hub for launch and recovery operations. It would recover rocket components following launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center.  Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 NewsThe proposed &#8220;launch vehicle recovery facility&#8221; would include a dedicated access road connecting it to North Second Street and a security checkpoint to maintain federal and commercial security standards.  The plans are being discussed at a community meeting at the Fort Pierce Yacht Club.Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tFORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>St. Lucie County is exploring plans to make the Port of Fort Pierce a hub for rocket recovery operations, with details being discussed at a community meeting.  <\/p>\n<p>According to the county&#8217;s master plan, the Port of Fort Pierce could serve as a critical support hub for launch and recovery operations. It would recover rocket components following launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center.  <\/p>\n<p>Your neighborhood: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/local-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The proposed &#8220;launch vehicle recovery facility&#8221; would include a dedicated access road connecting it to North Second Street and a security checkpoint to maintain federal and commercial security standards.  <\/p>\n<p>The plans are being discussed at a community meeting at the Fort Pierce Yacht Club.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Lucie County is exploring plans to make the Port of Fort Pierce a hub for rocket recovery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,123415],"class_list":["post-292201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st-lucie-county-discusses-rocket-recovery-facility-at-port-of-fort-pierce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}