Frank DiBello, President and CEO of Space Florida, stands near the Saturn Apollo rocket at the visitors center at Kennedy Space Center. - George Skene/Orlando Sentinel/TNS
ORLANDO, Fla. -- News that Space Florida’s leader was stepping down after 14 years came out at the same time the Florida Legislature got to work on a bill that gives Gov. Ron DeSantis more power over the state organization that acts as a middleman to get the aerospace industry to come to the Sunshine State. Space Florida President and CEO Frank DiBello, 80, who took on the role in 2009 and will step down at the end of this month, said his departure actually had been in the works for more than a year, and it was time to get out in front of it. “I’ve been talking to the board for the past, proba...
