Artemis 2 moon launch brought nearly 350,000 people to Florida's Space Coast

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Artemis 2 moon launch brought nearly 350,000 people to Florida's Space Coast

If you were sitting in Florida traffic after the April 1 launch of the historic Artemis 2 astronaut mission around the moon, that's because Space Coast tourism hit a big high. About 346,000 U.S. …

If you were sitting in Florida traffic after the April 1 launch of the historic Artemis 2 astronaut mission around the moon, that's because Space Coast tourism hit a big high. About 346,000 U.S. visitors — roughly the equivalent of the population of Honolulu, Hawaii — were in the northern half of Brevard County (on the Atlantic coast, near Orlando) between March 29 and April 4 during the Artemis 2 launch campaign, according to the Space Coast Office of Tourism. …

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