Navy Mom Honors Deployed Daughter For Military Monday

Courtney is the military member we are honoring for Military Monday this week. Courtney is in the Navy and is currently deployed. Amy the Navy the mom honors her deployed daughter for Military Monday this week.

Courtney has been in the Navy for four years now is following in the footsteps of her grandfather. She is honoring her grandfather by going into the Navy.

Amy the Navy mom honors her deployed daughter, Courtney, and told us she is deployed for the next eight to nine months. Unfortunately, the only way Amy communicates with Courtney is through text, email and Facebook Messenger.

Finally, congrats to Courtney as she is receiving a $100 Tampa Premium Outlets gift card.

Every Monday we honor a member of the military in Tampa Bay. Do you have someone in your life that is or has been in the military? Someone that you admire, a relative, a friend? Whoever it is that you want to spotlight. We want to hear from you and you can nominate someone right now by doing so HERE. The nomination process takes about five minutes. Once you nominate someone we will be in touch with you to schedule a call with you.

In late August the Artemis I, which is the first launch of NASA’s moon-focused Space Launch System will happen. The most famous missions that have launched have been from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Officials at Cape Canaveral are expecting 100,000 visitors for Artemis I's first window of launch. August 29, September 2nd and the 5th are the backup dates. If the rocket does launch on August 29th then it will happen at 8:33 a.m.

“We are expecting capacity crowds at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for the upcoming Artemis launch,” said Therrin Protze, the visitor complex’s chief operating officer. “(The visitor complex) will offer special Artemis launch viewing packages that will include some of the closest public viewing opportunities with distinctive experiences like live commentary from space experts and access to select exhibits and attractions.”

Tickets are already on sale for the vistor's complex viewing.

This launch is just the latest in historic launches. Below is a list of the most famous missions that have launched have been from Cape Canaveral.

This is launch of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins where Armstrong would become the first person to step foot on the moon.

This mission was going back to the moon, but had an incident during the flight. It became a successful failure as they got back home safely, but weren't able to land on the moon. The movie Apollo 13 starring Tom Hanks tells the story of this mission.

It reached Mars on July 4, 1997 becoming the first to ever reach another planet. The mission brought in evidence suggesting that Mars once had flowing water and that the atmosphere is heated by the planet's surface.

Space Shuttle Columbia was the mission of the Space Shuttle program. It landed only 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 36 times.  The shuttle only carried a crew of two.

SpaceX successfully launched two NASA astronauts making SpaceX the first private company to send astronauts to the International Space Station. It also marked the first crewed orbital launch from American soil in 9 years

It was the first United States human spaceflight. It was piloted by Astronaut Alan Shepherd. The project had the ultimate objective of putting an astronaut into orbit around the Earth and return him safely.