Cocoa Beach, Fla., was hit hard when NASA shut down its space shuttle program. Now it is booming again, thanks to Blue Origin and SpaceX.
Cocoa Beach, which sits south of Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic coast, was hit hard by the 2009 recession and the subsequent end to the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration’s space shuttle program. The economic downturn and space program’s demise led to large-scale layoffs and a reduction in tourism.
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