Melbourne is located in the heart of the Florida Space Coast, and is home to many high-tech organizations.

Three local schools and colleges have Web sites:

• Florida Institute of Technology,
• the Florida Air Academy, and
• Palm Bay High School.

The Melbourne Police Department is also online!

Here's Yahoo's list of Melbourne area sites.

Here's a sampling of local Web pages:

You'll find lots of Melbourne-related links at the interesting (but very wide) Local's Guide to East Central Florida, and at the official City of Melbourne web site.

You can take a virtual visit to Disney World, or find out about Grimaldi Chocolates, home of the famous chocolate covered potato chips : (

Tourists and residents alike will want to see the NASA Kennedy Space Center site.