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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.
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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