"It’s amazing to think that this thing I have been working on in various capacities for the last eight years is about to send four astronauts around the moon for the first time in a half-century.”

Rockets launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, Florida, have been seen as far as Myrtle Beach or Philadelphia. People in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama may see New Glenn rocket launch from Cape Canaveral.