First lady Jill Biden to visit Patrick Space Force Base to meet with military families

First lady Jill Biden will visit Patrick Space Force Base on Monday afternoon to meet with military spouses and families, White House officials announced.

Biden and Veteran Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough's trip to the Space Coast will cap a two-day swing through the Sunshine State.

The first lady will promote the White House's Joining Forces initiative during her Patrick Space Force Base visit. Joining Forces focuses on families of service members and veterans, caregivers and survivors in three areas: employment and entrepreneurship; military child education; and health and well-being, according to the program's website.

Biden and McDonough are scheduled to arrive in Florida on Sunday night at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Monday morning, the duo will speak at a cancer survivorship summit hosted by U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Davie.

White House officials have not released logistical details of Biden's Monday visit to the Space Coast.

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Biden's visit comes on the heels of Friday's SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center, sending NASA's Psyche spacecraft hurtling on a 2.2-billion mile mission to the asteroid belt.

About nine hours later, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, sending another batch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.

Rick Neale is a Space Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY (for more of his stories, click here). Contact Neale at 321-242-3638 or rneale@floridatoday.com. Twitter/X: @RickNeale1

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