Here's your local news at a glance for Wednesday, the 5th of August.
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🏘️ Community
4Ever Young Merritt Island offers teachers limited-time savings on wellness and aesthetic services (15% off treatments, discounted Tox and Dysport rates) as a thank-you for their dedication this school season.
Teachers must book appointments soon to access these exclusive back-to-school specials.
💼 Business
Blue Origin and NASA signed an agreement to use the historic Thad Cochran Test Stand — known as the B-Test Complex — at NASA Stennis Space Center for New Glenn second-stage hotfire testing, part of Blue Origin's plan to expand its test stands and support lunar missions.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched three AST SpaceMobile satellites into orbit at 3:49 a.m. today from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida’s Space Coast.
The mission was the 50th orbital launch of 2026 and a Falcon 9 will launch 29 Starlink satellites on Aug. 10.
🎭 Culture
Backyard astronomers in Palm Bay can look forward to Aug.
12 when a planetary alignment appears before sunrise, a partial solar eclipse begins at 11:34 a.m. and a Perseid meteor shower peaks under a new moon.
🏥 Health
Florida Retina Specialists now offers the new Valeda Light Delivery System — a treatment that uses red light to help some patients with dry age-related macular degeneration boost their vision; therapy is available at offices on Merritt Island and Viera after a retinal exam.
Florida health officials reported 254 cyclosporiasis cases (with no linked outbreak) from May 1 to July 28 and no deaths, while the CDC tracks over 10,000 cases nationwide linked mainly to contaminated lettuce from Mexico.
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