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BREVARD HISTORY: Canaveral National Seashore Has Cultural Resources that Reflect Florida History Since 2000 BC

Cape Canaveral and the central Florida coast were some of the first North American lands encountered by European explorers at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Spanish adventurers named the cape area Cañaveral, meaning canebrake. The area north of Cape Canaveral the Spanish called Los Mosquitos for the pesky, biting insect that still thrives in the area. […]

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SPACE HISTORY: NASA’s First Chief Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman Was ‘Mother of Hubble’

Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018), NASA’s first chief astronomer, is known as the ‘Mother of Hubble.’ In a time when women were discouraged from studying math and science, Roman became a research astronomer and was instrumental in taking NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope from an idea to reality and establishing NASA’s program of space-based astronomical observatories. […]