"NASA has got their guidelines, and I got mine," Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said ahead of the May 27 launch.
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A sheriff in Florida is encouraging people to come to his county to watch the scheduled May 27 historic launch of a SpaceX rocket with two astronauts aboard.
"If NASA is telling people to not come here and watch the launch, that's on them," Ivey said."I'm telling people what I believe as an American. And so NASA has got their guidelines, and I got mine."Bridenstine said now is not the time to have large crowds at Kennedy Space Center and along the Space Coast.
Story continuesIvey advised people coming here for the launch to practice"family social distancing," with individual families staying in small groups, and being"mindful of others in that regard."
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