[TRENDING: Eta floods Florida | Romaine calm: Florida man arrested after lettuce tirade | DeSantis accused of wanting herd immunity]On top of that, Brevard County Communications Director Don Walker predicts perhaps 250,000 people already within the county — residents, hotel and vacation rental guests, beach-goers — will head outside to watch Saturday’s historic launch.“Any parking space along A1A is prime real estate Saturday,” Walker said.NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi are scheduled for liftoff at 7:49 p.m.
Saturday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.During the last week of May, huge crowds flocked to the Space Coast twice — for a May 27 scrub.