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Canaveral Port Authority commissioners, who voted 4-1 on Aug. 21 to reverse their decision to build another cruise terminal at North Cargo Berth 8, may revert to their older plans to build the next cruise terminal on the south side.
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The reversal happened because state officials objected to the use of North Cargo Berth 8 for a cruise terminal rather than commercial spaceflight-related infrastructure.
“I want to underscore how much we really do work with commercial spaceflight,” Commissioner Wayne Justice told Orlando Business Journal. “We have an average of about two Falcon 9 lifts from the barge per week. We’re intimately part of this industry.”
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