If you were sitting in Florida traffic after the April 1 launch of the historic Artemis 2 astronaut mission around the moon, that's because Space Coast tourism hit a big high.
About 346,000 U.S. visitors — roughly the equivalent of the population of Honolulu, Hawaii — were in the northern half of Brevard County (on the Atlantic coast, near Orlando) between March 29 and April 4 during the Artemis 2 launch campaign, according to the Space Coast Office of Tourism.
