{"id":70381,"date":"2026-03-30T08:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/florida-space-coast-cities-abuzz-before-nasas-artemis-launch-at-the-doorstep-of-the-future\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:54:49","slug":"florida-space-coast-cities-abuzz-before-nasas-artemis-launch-at-the-doorstep-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/florida-space-coast-cities-abuzz-before-nasas-artemis-launch-at-the-doorstep-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida space coast cities abuzz before Nasa\u2019s Artemis launch: \u2018At the doorstep of the future\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Canaveral and Titusville, long ghost towns after 1969 moon landing, have witnessed space industry \u2018renaissance\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Almost six decades have passed since the space coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a> experienced an atmosphere quite like this. On its beaches and in cities, there is an air of anticipation, excitement and anxiety to match the final days of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/nasa\">Nasa<\/a>\u2019s storied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2022\/aug\/26\/apollo-space-moon-missions-photographs-remastered-neil-armstrong\">Apollo moon program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At 6.24pm ET on Wednesday at Cape Canaveral, subject to adverse weather and last-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/mar\/13\/nasa-artemis-ii-moon-mission-launch-april\">technical hitches<\/a>, four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/mar\/13\/nasa-artemis-ii-moon-mission-launch-april\">Artemis II<\/a> astronauts \u2013 three Americans and one Canadian \u2013 will become the first humans to blast off on a journey to the moon since 1972.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/30\/nasa-artemis-launch-florida\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Canaveral and Titusville, long ghost towns after 1969 moon landing, have witnessed space industry \u2018renaissance\u2019 Almost six decades have passed since the space coast of Florida experienced an atmosphere quite like this. On its beaches and in cities, there is an air of anticipation, excitement and anxiety to match the final days of Nasa\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Florida space coast cities abuzz before Nasa\u2019s Artemis launch: \u2018At the doorstep of the future\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/florida-space-coast-cities-abuzz-before-nasas-artemis-launch-at-the-doorstep-of-the-future\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida space coast cities abuzz before Nasa\u2019s Artemis launch: \u2018At the doorstep of the future\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}