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Artemis I launch in slow motion turns night into day

Slow-motion footage shows NASA's SLS rocket lifting off in 2022 as its exhaust lights up the sky.

Tom Ashworth ·

NASA's Space Launch System rocket, topped with the Orion spacecraft, lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in November 2022 on the uncrewed Artemis I mission.

In slow motion, the pad disappears into towering exhaust clouds as the night sky turns a glowing orange.

The Artemis program is preparing the way for crewed missions to the Moon.

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