{"id":214906,"date":"2026-04-01T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214906\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:18:24","slug":"nasas-artemis-2-moon-launch-may-be-visible-from-florida-and-southern-georgia-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214906\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA’s Artemis 2 moon launch may be visible from Florida and southern Georgia today."},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA’s historic Artemis 2<\/a> moon mission is set to launch later today (April 1) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, taking a crew of four astronauts on a mission to the far side of the moon for the first time since Apollo 17 left in 1972<\/p>\n

Skywatchers in Florida and Southern Georgia may just get to witness the historic event for themselves, as the 322-foot-tall Space Launch System<\/a> defies Earth’s gravity to carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman<\/a>, Victor Glover<\/a>, Christina Koch<\/a> and the Canadian Space Agency<\/a>‘s Jeremy Hansen<\/a> to orbit.<\/p>\n

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The two-hour launch window for Artemis 2 opens at 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 GMT) on April 1, with an 80% probability of favorable weather conditions<\/a>, as of March 31. NASA has announced<\/a> backup launch opportunities running from April 2-6 and on April 30.<\/p>\n

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Weather permitting, the launch may even be glimpsed from as far afield as the city of Savannah in southern Georgia, roughly 124 miles (200 kilometers) away, according to a new NASA graphic<\/a> posted to the social media site X.<\/p>\n

The SLS rocket should become visible in the east for skywatchers in the nearby city of Orlando \u2014 about 50 miles (80 km) from the Kennedy launch pad<\/a> \u2014 10-20 seconds after liftoff. Those in Tampa on the west coast of the peninsula and Jacksonville to the north won’t see the rocket until 30-40 seconds after ignition.<\/p>\n

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NASA graphic displaying launch visibility for the Artemis 2 launch. (Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n

Artemis 2 will be lost from view just 70 seconds after launch, having ascended to an altitude of over 40,000 feet (12, 190 meters) on its journey to low-Earth orbit \u2014 the first step in a 10-day mission that will take the Orion capsule on a mission to the far side of the moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Be sure to read our day-by-day breakdown<\/a> of what to expect from each phase of the historic mission and to stay up to date with the latest news with our Artemis 2 live blog. You<\/a> can also watch the launch live here on Space.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Editor’s Note: If you capture an image of the Artemis 2 launch and want to share it with Space.com’s readers, then please send your photo(s)\/footage, comments, name and location to spacephotos@space.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA’s historic Artemis 2 moon mission is set to launch later today (April 1) from the Kennedy Space…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-214906","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\/214906","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=214906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}