Todd Halvorson is the senior aerospace reporter for FLORIDA TODAY and USA TODAY at Kennedy Space Center and has been covering U.S. and international space exploration for more than 25 years. Now in his second stint at FLORIDA TODAY, Halvorson also worked as Cape Canaveral Bureau Chief for SPACE.com and as a freelance reporter for The New York Times. He is a 1981 graduate of University of Cincinnati, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Certificates of Writing in Journalism and Fiction. Halvorson earned a Certificate in Financial Planning from Florida Institute of Technology in 1999. He and his wife, Annis, live in Titusville and have three adult children.