The Artemis II event will be the family\u2019s first time seeing a rocket launch in person. Aaron said they planned to drive into Titusville to find a viewing area that isn\u2019t too overcrowded.<\/p>\n
The influx of visitors to coastal stretches of central Florida, while challenging for traffic, is a major boost for the local economy.<\/p>\n
Beachfront hotels sold out weeks, if not months, in advance. And many local businesses are getting in on the launch fun. <\/p>\n
An Ace Hardware in Titusville featured a photo of the astronaut crew on its sign, advertising that the store carries all supplies needed for launch-viewing. A shop in Cocoa Beach was selling special launch merchandise, including an Artemis II Hawaiian shirt.<\/p>\n
The Playalinda Brewing Company, meanwhile, created a themed pale ale dubbed Artemis IIPA.<\/p>\n
\u201cBack in 2022, Playalinda released an Artemis Pale Ale, but with this new venture, we wanted to step it up, so it became the Artemis II Double IPA,\u201d said Ronnie Chabot, one of the company’s four owner-operators.<\/p>\n
After the beer was released on Feb. 3 \u2014 ahead of NASA\u2019s first targeted launch window that month \u2014 Chabot said cans and draft sold out in days. The brew\u2019s retro-looking labels show the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft, with an \u201cEaster egg\u201d for space nerds: The moon is depicted in the exact phase it would have been had Artemis II launched in the February window.<\/p>\n
When NASA was forced to forgo launch opportunities that month, Playalinda decided to make another, bigger batch. Those cans also sold out quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the fastest thing we\u2019ve sold out at this brewery,\u201d Chabot said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Artemis II event will be the family\u2019s first time seeing a rocket launch in person. Aaron said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-214894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214894","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=214894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}