I love this. I'm on the other end of my journey now, having spent the last 15 years cultivating passion projects. It's fulfilling beyond measure, for sure. I was lucky enough to find the technical side of theater and have been able to help grow a small musical theatre company into one of the larger and more respected ones in my area. Now, as I re-enter corporate America, I salute you. Follow your dreams. Cultivate your passion. Remember those who help and encourage you along the way. It's not an easy journey, and it's a calling many won't understand. I wish you happiness, joy, and, above all, peace.

Local here. Do not plan a launch as your primary visit to Central Florida. The Kennedy Space Center does have a very cool tour, which will undoubtedly be very crowded surrounding a launch date. There are other attractions in the Central Florida area as well, including beaches, theme parks, reserves, and state parks.

Plan your visit around the launch. Make plenty of time to be there for it. You won't get as close as the TV reporters or VIP spectators do, but you will be close enough. There are plenty of beach and intercostal parks that have very good viewing points for a launch. Leave yourself a lot of buffer time around a launch, as traffic is pretty horrible during those timeframes.

There are no refunds on anything from anybody.

You're not going to be paying KSC to watch the launch. You're most likely going to be in a water side park or even a parking lot.

If you come solely for a launch and it's scrubbed, now you're miserable.

My advice is to come visit Central Florida during a launch window , pack a cooler and head to the coast for it. If it's a clear day, you can see the flames from the boosters from Orlando very easily. On good days, you can watch the SpaceX boosters come back down as well.

If the launch is scrubbed, you're pretty much at the beach, so spend the day there with the family. If it isn't scrubbed, watch the launch and then spend the day at the beach with the family.

It's a long wait for a relatively short window, but it's totally worth it. Just make it a potential highlight of your visit and everything will be fine

No traffic cams in that area, sadly. Pinecastle isn't one of the more "well to do" areas. Good people, though, and I wouldn't think the driver was from around there.

Sad part about this, in the neighborhood she was known as "the cat lady". Always very pleasant to talk to. Always going around on her trike. There's a little memorial with balloons up now. Never know what tomorrow will bring, folks.