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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Leaders of prominent Florida space organizations convened at the Florida Space Authority campus in Cape Canaveral to sign a memorandum of agreement with the Space Foundation to launch the first “Florida Space” conference. Dr. James W. Johnson (left), chairman of the Canaveral Council of Technical Societies, and Col. Mark H. Owen, commander of the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, sign copies of the agreement for their respective organizations. Others present to sign the agreement are retired Navy Capt. Winston E. Scott, executive director of the Florida Space Authority; Dr. Woodrow Whitlow Jr., deputy director of the Kennedy Space Center; and Elliot G. Pulham, president and chief executive officer of the Space Foundation. The conference will combine and build on the best features of previous Florida space events including Space Congress and the Cape Canaveral Spaceport Symposium. Both will be retired now in favor of this new event to be held annually and operated by the Space Foundation. Florida Space 2005 will be presented in November 2005.