Florida’s Fourth Estate: The thing everyone wonders about space travel
ORLANDO, Fla. – It has been a long time coming but the United States is on the cusp of history once again as American astronauts prepare to launch from Florida’s Space Coast.
News 6 anchors Matt Austin and Ginger Gadsden talk with colleague and space expert, Erik von Ancken, about his years of covering the space program and having a front seat to this extraordinary moment.
We also find out the one question astronauts do not seem to want to answer about lengthy space travel.
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Ginger Gadsden joined the News 6 team in June 2014 as an anchor/reporter.
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