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Richard Tribou

Richard Tribou, a Senior Content Editor for the Orlando Sentinel's Audience team, reports on the space and cruise industries. He also covers hurricanes, travel and the occasional Florida man story.

This satellite image shows Tropical Depression Two as it moves slowly toward the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, July 20, 2026. (GOES-East/NOAA)

Tropical Storm Bertha forecast to form today in Gulf, threaten Florida Panhandle, NHC says

July 20, 2026 at 9:18 a.m.

Tropical Storm Bertha is forecast to form Monday and could threaten the Florida Panhandle, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Video captured by Spaceflightnow.com shows the fireball engulfing a Blue Origin New Glenn booster at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36 on Thursday, May 28, 2026, during a hotfire test. (Courtesy/Spaceflightnow.com)

Watch: Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes on Cape Canaveral launch pad during test

May 29, 2026 at 4:15 p.m.

The new first stage for an upcoming Blue Origin New Glenn mission exploded on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral on Thursday night.

The Disney Dream cruise ship debuted out of Port Canaveral in 2011, but now sails out of Port Everglades. (Mark Gauert/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Details emerge from Disney cruise incident when father, daughter went overboard

July 3, 2025 at 11:21 a.m.

After a father jumped in after his daughter fell overboard from a Disney Cruise Line ship Sunday, the Broward County Sheriff's Office released a statement clarifying details from its investigation.

This image provided by Blue Origin shows from left: Jeff Bezos, Kerianne Flynn, Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Aisha Bowe, Gayle King, Amanda Nguyen, Sarah Knights, director of Blue Origin’s astronaut office, and Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp. (Blue Origin via AP)

All-female Blue Origin crew with Bezos’ fiancee, Katy Perry, Gayle King launch to space

May 7, 2025 at 4:27 p.m.

Jeff Bezos' fiancee Lauren Sánchez led an all-female crew including pop singer Katy Perry and CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King for a short trip to space Monday morning.

Two people are dead and at least six more hurt after a pair of downtown Orlando shootings during crowded Halloween celebrations early Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, with a 17-year-old suspect in custody, according to Orlando Police Chief Eric Smith. (Orlando Police Department)

VIDEO: Tally rises to 9 shot with 2 dead in downtown Orlando; 17-year-old suspect in custody

November 4, 2024 at 9:48 a.m.

Suspect Jaylen Edgar was tackled and handcuffed as he tried to leave with fleeing crowd

The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023. - The rocket successfully blasted off at 8:33 am Central Time (1333 GMT). The Starship capsule had been scheduled to separate from the first-stage rocket booster three minutes into the flight but separation failed to occur and the rocket blew up. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Record-setting SpaceX Starship launches, but blows up 4 minutes into test flight

April 20, 2023 at 7:29 p.m.

SpaceX managed to get the most powerful rocket ever off the launch pad Thursday, but it exploded four minutes later and didn't make it to space during the first test...

A SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy booster sits on the launch pad at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas on April 15, 2023 ahead of the first-ever launch attempt of the combined hardware that could make it the most powerful rocket to ever blast off from the planet.

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch attempt delaying what would be world’s most powerful rocket

April 17, 2023 at 2:17 p.m.

SpaceX got the OK from the Federal Aviation Administration and looked to launch what would have been the most powerful rocket to ever blast off from Earth on a suborbital...

Disney Cruise Line announced it would base a new cruise ship in Singapore for five years starting in 2025.

Disney Cruise Line to send new ship to Singapore

March 30, 2023 at 7:41 p.m.

Disney Cruise Line is setting up shop in Southeast Asia with a new cruise ship set to debut in 2025. The line announced Wednesday with the Singapore Tourism Board it...

‘He loved what he did:’ News 13 reporter, UCF alum Dylan Lyons killed in Orlando shooting

February 24, 2023 at 1:29 a.m.

Even before he stepped into his first newsroom, Dylan Lyons' future in journalism looked promising. While a student at University of Central Florida's Nicholson School of Communication and Media, Lyons...

Photographed August 27, thunderstorms move over Artemis I at launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. After Monday's scrub due to engine-related issues, NASA will make another attempt to launch the moon-orbit test flight on Saturday with weather forecast to be 60% favorable for lift-off. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel)

Orion spacecraft makes closest moon approach on Artemis I mission

November 28, 2022 at 2:47 p.m.

The Artemis I mission brought the Orion capsule on its closest approach to the moon Monday while blasting out on its way to an orbit that will take it farther...

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