JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — What goes up, must come down.

While the flashiest part of space exploration is the launch, the landing is just as important to completing the mission, and they may one day be completed at Cecil Spaceport.

The Jacksonville Aviation Authority is pursuing a reentry license so spacecrafts could land there after completing missions.

"That was our main goal was to get ready for the future," said Jacksonville Aviation Authority CEO Mark VanLoh.

VanLoh says that the future is taking off after the board unanimously voted to move $600,000 of the budget toward applying for a reentry license to see spacecrafts land at Cecil Spaceport.

"It'll look like the space shuttles landing, only it'll be much smaller," said VanLoh. "They'll have experiments on board they need to get over

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