May 3, 2024

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| 4/22/2024

"He would be tickled to death."

-- Mark Kittinger

The U.S. post office in Casselberry is on its way toward being renamed in honor of the late U.S. Air Force Col. Joseph “Joe” Kittinger, a famed aviator considered the world’s first astronaut.

A Seminole County resident, Kittinger died Dec. 9, 2022. He was 94.

U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, R-New Smyrna Beach, proposed legislation to have the facility at 109 Live Oaks Blvd. permanently honor Kittinger. The House Oversight Committee passed the bill April 10. It now heads to the full House for a vote.

“That would be awesome,” his son Mark Kittinger, of Longwood, said Thursday after hearing the news.

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