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ARTEMIS: Returning to the moon
From Port Canaveral to the Indian River Lagoon to the beaches, there are many easy-to-access sites along the Space Coast to watch Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral rocket launches. Florida's Space Coast has a great list of more than a dozen rocket launch viewing sites, with descriptions and maps. Check it out here!
HERE ARE A FEW LOCATIONS TO START WITH:
- Date: No Earlier Than April 7, 2023
- Vehicle: SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket
- Mission: Intelsat 40e
- Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Launch Window: TBA
- Date: No Earlier Than April 07, 2023
- Vehicle: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket
- Mission: Intelsat 40e
- Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Launch Window: TBA
- Date: No Earlier Than April 18, 2023
- Vehicle: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket
- Mission: ViaSat-3 (Americas)
- Launch Site: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
- Launch Window: TBA
- Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023
- Vehicle: ULA's Delta IV Heavy
- Mission: NROL-68 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office
- Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Launch Window: TBA
- Date: Mid- to late-April
- Vehicle: ULA's Altas V rocket
- Mission: Boeing Starliner CST-100 Crewed Flight Test
- Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Launch Window: TBA
- Date: No Earlier Than May 4
- Vehicle: United Launch Alliance's Vulcan VC2 rocket
- Mission: Peregrine Mission One lunar lander & Kuiper satellites
- Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Launch Window: TBA
- Date: No Earlier Than July 21
- Vehicle: Boeing's Starliner
- Mission: NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test
- Launch Site: TBA
- Launch Window: TBA
- Date: Summer 2023
- Vehicle: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket
- Mission: Polaris Dawn
- Launch Site: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
- Launch Window: TBA
- Date: No Earlier Than Oct. 05, 2023
- Vehicle: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket
- Mission: NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche mission
- Launch Site: TBA
- Launch Window: TBA
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- NASA.gov
- Kennedy Space Center
- Space Launch Delta 45 (Cape Canaveral Air Force Station)
- Space Today
- 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA
- Vandenberg Air Force Base Launch Schedule
- Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
- International Space Station
- SpaceX
- ULA
- Relativity Space
ATLANTIS: Kennedy Space Center
- Space shuttle Atlantis launched on its last mission at 11:29 a.m. July 8, 2011.
- The shuttle program ended with the landing of Atlantis on Thursday, July 21 at 5:57 a.m.
- Atlantis was NASA's fourth space shuttle orbiter to join the fleet.
ENDEAVOUR: California Science Center, Los Angeles
- Space shuttle Endeavour launched on its final mission Monday, May 16, 2011.
- After a journey of 6.5 million miles, the orbiter landed for the final time at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, June 1, 2011.
DISCOVERY: Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
- Discovery was NASA's reliable workhorse, spending more than a quarter century carrying crews, satellites and space station parts.
- In 1990, Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.
- Final flight: Feb. 24, 2011.
ENTERPRISE: Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York City
- Enterprise was a prototype shuttle, rolling out of a California assembly facility on Sept. 17, 1976. After its success, Columbia became the 1st shuttle in space.
- It was originally to be named Constitution, but a write-in campaign by fans of the TV show Star Trek got it renamed.
SOURCES: Information and images on this page are from NASA, United Launch Alliance and SpaceX.