Humans are heading to the moon for the first time in 53 years after NASA successfully launched four astronauts on its SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft on Wednesday.
Generating a colossal 8.8 million pounds of thrust as it left the launchpad, the rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin the 10-day Artemis II mission that will take crew members Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen around the moon and back to Earth. Watch the video below to see the rocket roaring away from the Space Coast at 6:35 p.m. ET.
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You can also watch SLS rocket’s two side boosters detach from the core stage several minutes after launch after helping to lift the vehicle and the crew to space.
At the start of their epic voyage, the astronauts will spend about 24 hours checking the
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