mosi.org<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe Artemis II mission marks NASA\u2019s first crewed journey around the moon in more than 50 years. According to NASA, the Artemis II voyage is another step toward \u201ca sustained presence on the moon that will help the agency prepare to send astronauts to Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n
MOSI is in North Tampa at 4801 E. Fowler Ave.<\/p>\n
Look eastward<\/p>\n
If you were a crow and wanted to go to the Kennedy Space Center, just set a course due east and keep flying.<\/p>\n
From Spring Hill, the space center is directly east of us, allowing views of all kinds of rocket launches. You can start by watching the countdown on your TV, then after liftoff race outside, look due east and wait a bit because of the curvature of the earth, and, if the weather is clear, you will see the rocket ascending. It will still be daylight so it won\u2019t be as spectacular as a night launch, but you\u2019ll probably see a contrail and perhaps booster separation.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s my plan, in any case.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s likely that we\u2019ll have video from cameras on the rocket as well as inside the Orion spacecraft as it\u2019s carried into earth orbit.<\/p>\n
Hey, did you know, the first live views from inside a crewed U.S. spacecraft during launch were on July 15, 1975, during the final launch of the Apollo program, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project?<\/p>\n
For the next few days, NASA will have live downlinks and status briefings.<\/p>\n
On Monday, April 6, starting at 12:45 p.m., NASA\u2019s coverage of the lunar flyby will begin. There could be a loss of communications as the spacecraft passes behind the moon.<\/p>\n
According to NASA, \u201cFor a launch on April 1, the crew is expected to surpass the record for human\u2019s farthest distance from Earth previously set by Apollo 13, at 248,655 miles from Earth.\u201d That\u2019ll be at 1:45 p.m.<\/p>\n
That night, at 10:40 p.m., there will be another live downlink event.<\/p>\n
At 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10, NASA will begin its coverage of the crew\u2019s return to Earth. Splashdown is set for 8:06 p.m. in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING HILL \u2014 You can drive down to the Museum of Science and Industry on Wednesday, April 1,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[48493,96361,96981,96979,11969,96980,96978,11465,135,1526,137,136,96982],"class_list":["post-211968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-artemis-ii","tag-artemis-program","tag-kennedy-space-center-launch-complex-39","tag-kennedy-space-center-launch-complex-39b","tag-nasa","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-orion","tag-spring-hill","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampas-museum-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}