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tourists flock to Florida for Moon rocket launch

Tourists at a space t-shirt store shop near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, August 27, 2022

MERRITT ISLAND: Seeing a rocket blast off to the Moon is “a once-in-a-lifetime thing to experience,” says Joanne Bostandji.

The 45-year-old has traveled all the way from northern England to Florida with her husband and two children for a space-themed vacation, and they’re prepared to make sure they don’t miss a second of the action as NASA’s newest and most powerful rocket is scheduled to launch for the first time Monday.

“The plan is to drive very early in the morning and get a spot” on Cocoa Beach, she said, not far from the Kennedy Space Center.

“I know it’s going be from a far distance, but I still think it’s going…

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