Ready to Launch

The final mission for space shuttle Atlantis signals an end to the space shuttle program, but the beginning of a new venture for Craig Technologies.

The Melbourne-based company recently added a machine and tool division as other companies with those capabilities on the Space Coast have closed. The loss of NASA-related contracts, combined with the economy, is responsible for the closings of these specialty shops.

Craig Technologies is a software and systems engineering firm that provides project management, infrastructure installation and modeling and simulation services for the aerospace and military industries. It seems a machine and tool division would seem out of place at a company that began as a software firm, yet it was a logical expansion to Carol Craig, the company's founder and CEO.