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Kennedy Space Center, FL - Netflix LIVE! On Location will present a live concert with The Bruce Willis Blues Band at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Thursday, August 2 in the Rocket Garden. The 7:00 p.m. concert will be followed by a free outdoor screening of the 1998 Academy Award-nominated classic “Armageddon.”

Headlining this unique event is motion picture superstar Bruce Willis and his band, The Bruce Willis Blues Band, which will play a live, public concert prior to an outdoor screening of “Armageddon.”  The star and his band are expected to perform a 60-minute set of original blues music.  Returning to the space center for the first time since the filming of “Armageddon” a decade ago, Willis is expected to be welcomed by about 7,000 fans in the center’s spectacular outdoor Rocket Garden.

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This is the best time of year in Florida, many complain of the heat but you can tell they’re not beach lovers because if so, they would agree. July and August is when the seas lay flat and the water is clear.

That’s another reason Sebastian Inlet is so popular this time of year, the water is as clear now as it gets this far north, and snorkeling is very popular at Sebastian Inlet State Park.

Fishing is also good for summertime species like mangrove snapper and snook, however snook must be released until September.

Other activities at Sebastian Inlet include swimming, surfing and exploring.

Florida Wildlife

Birding in Florida

Florida Ecotourism is growing and the Florida Wildlife image gallery features many of the common animals you’d most likely encounter. Florida Geotourism is growing Florida has the greatest places to view nature with many state and local parks and birding trails.

The Florida Travel News also featured Birding in Florida, an image gallery that has many of Florida’s most common birds. Many of the bird pictures were taken at the Viera Wetlands near Melbourne FL.

UPDATED 7/6/7 - The Dawn spacecraft launch has been postponed until no earlier than Monday, July 9. The launch window for Dawn on Monday will be 3:56 p.m. to 4:26 p.m.NASA’s Dawn mission is getting ready to launch on an unprecedented tour of two residents of the asteroid belt. This mission will be the first to orbit two different bodies in our solar system.

Following launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), FL, on a Delta 2, the Dawn spacecraft will use ion propulsion periodically for four years to take it to its first destination, the asteroid Vesta, in 2011. After seven months in orbit there, Dawn will depart for a nearly three-year cruise to the dwarf planet Ceres, where it will arrive in 2015. Dawn will spend five months in orbit at Ceres. The spacecraft will be the first ever to orbit one extraterrestrial body, depart, and then orbit a second body.