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Under the bright April sun, crowds gathered across the Space Coast and looked toward the sky. People from near and far came together throughout Brevard to watch NASA's milestone Artemis II launch to the moon from Kennedy Space Center on April 1.

NASA is scheduled to launch its historic Artemis II lunar mission on Wednesday, April 1, from the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It marks the first journey to the moon since the Apollo missions