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Inside UCF's history as SpaceU, NASA ties

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Inside UCF's history as SpaceU, NASA ties — Winter Garden Technology news

Dr. Philip Metzger, Director of the Stephen W. Hawking Center for Microgravity Research and Education at UCF joins FOX 35's Garrett Wymer live via Zoom to break down UCF's founding as Florida Technical University, established as a feeder school to the US Space Program and how those roots continue to produce the future of the US Space program.

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