NASA's Artemis program is not only an exciting start to the next stage in space exploration, it also opens new opportunities for hotels along Florida’s Space Coast.

The Artemis 1 launch scheduled for yesterday was scrubbed due to engine and fuel problems. The backup launch dates are Sept. 2 and 5.

The Artemis 1 is the first in NASA’s new Artemis program that will put humans back on the moon within the decade. The Artemis 1 launch's goal is to put an uncrewed Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft into orbit around the moon as a test flight for the program. It will launch from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B, where Apollo 10 launched in 1969, in Cape Canaveral.

The milestone launches from the space center in recent years have brought hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Space Coast each time, Meagan Happel, public relations manager and film commissioner for Florida’s Space Coast Office of Tourism, said via email Friday. More than 100,000 visitors were expected today, and possibly more than 200,000 for a rescheduled launch over Labor Day weekend.

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