Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Video compiled from NASA footage posted on 11/21/2022.

According to NASA this is "Raw NASA camera footage, taken from the Space Launch System's (SLS) core stage, shows the SLS separation of the solid rocket boosters two minutes and 11 seconds after liftoff.

At 1:47 am EST (6:47 UTC) on November 16, NASA’s Orion spacecraft launched aboard the SLS rocket from historic Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on a path to the Moon, officially beginning the Artemis I mission.

This mission is the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, the SLS rocket, and Kennedy Space Center ground systems."

Learn more at nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i or NASA.gov

Credits: NASA

The music track on this video has been licensed from Epidemic Music.