A decade ago, after NASA ended the space shuttle program, Florida’s Space Coast was in the doldrums. Nowadays, the county’s unemployment rate is under 3%, and the Space Coast is humming with jobs and rocket launches.
“It’s just so exciting, the thought of being able to go to space, myself, potentially with all the commercial programs going on, it just makes you want to live it,” Mayall said. “Like it’s just exciting to be around.”
Perhaps nothing best captured the Space Coast’s comeback than Space X’s first astronaut lift-off in spring 2020, which put Florida’s central coast back in the business of catapulting humans into space and marked the first time a private company had launched people into orbit. The efforts drew hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and ended a nine-year launch drought for NASA.
Along the Space Coast, new subdivisions have been permitted, new hotels have been built, small manufacturing plants supporting the space industry are under construction in industrial parks and a gleaming outdoor shopping area recently opened in the footprint of the Miracle City Mall. Last year, the Milken Institute ranked the Space Coast metro area as having the second strongest economy in the U.S. using an index based on jobs, wages and high tech growth.
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