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  • 06/06/2025
The Space Launch System - first-ever launch was captured by several cameras at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B and on the rocket.

Credit: NASA | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
Music by Rocket Jr. / courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Transcript
00:00Hydrogen burn off igniters initiator, seven, six, five, four stage engines start, three, two, one, boosters in ignition, and liftoff of Artemis I, we rise together, back to the moon and beyond.
00:30If, you're not the mother-in-law, you're the only one that's going to be the moon.
00:51All four RS-25 engines on the core stage and two solid rocket boosters now propelling
01:06the vehicle at 128 miles per hour.
01:09Hearing good control on the roll from teams in Mission Control Houston, all good calls
01:17so far.
01:18All four RS-25 engines on the core stage and two solid rocket boosters now propelling
01:41the vehicle at 128 miles per hour.
01:48Hearing good control on the roll from teams in Mission Control Houston, all good calls so
01:52far.
01:53Now 30 seconds into the flight bar is on.

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