Max Power Event at
Kennedy Space Center
(My application to attend!)

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Welcome to KayakingKSC.com, the home of untold stories from the front lines of America's spaceport.

I am a fiber optics specialist at Kennedy Space Center, toying with the invisible infrastructure of reflection and refraction.

And I am excited to offer volunteer to help at the 2026 Max Power event November 7 & 8th.

Even if my offer to help/application is not accepted, I am excited for this multi location event!

America’s newest and most exciting aerospace technology expo and air show  (Navigates to NASA)

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Bruce Ryba

Fiber Optic Specialist at KSC and Space Coast Author

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For the last forty years while the world watches from outside the gates, I've worked inside a science fiction novel where my daily job requires hands-on access to every single building and launch pad on Kennedy Space Center.

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My book on Amazon:

Surviving Kennedy Space Center.

Challenger to Artemis

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The only book in the world written by a frontline technician capturing the raw human toll of KSC’s greatest transitions.

When the Space Shuttle program ended, a historic wave of massive layoffs swept through the Space Coast. My coworkers and were some of the few people who survived those sad days when America ended the Space Shuttle Program.

I recorded the seismic shift as KSC transformed from a government shuttle hub into a commercial spaceport and the birthplace of the Artemis program.

Written with the acute awareness of our fragile, hyper-connected world, Surviving Kennedy Space Center bridges the historical gap between the Apollo/Shuttle generations and the incoming Artemis Program, the return to the moon and the rise of SpaceX and Blue Origin.

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Shuttle Days at Pad 39A

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MAX POWER Expo 2026

I am actively pitching to join the upcoming MAX POWER Aerospace Expo on November 7–8, 2026. My tailored presentations include:

• The Shuttle Layoff Survivors: A deeply personal, historical accounting of the workforce that held KSC together during its darkest transitional era to pave the way for commercial flight.

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Going back to the moon!

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About the author:

Resident of Brevard County Florida

Four years in the United States Air Force

Seven years as a diver on the Air Force Eastern Test Range

A lifetime at Kennedy Space Center, with addictions of Flintknapping, kayak racing and writing.

Website: Kayakingksc.com

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