Artemis I launch

For NASA’s Artemis I (Artemis-1) mission to the Moon, the first Space Launch System (SLS) launch vehicle launched the Orion spacecraft on an uncrewed flight test, from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on 16 November 2022, at 06:48 UTC (01:48 EST). Orion is scheduled to fly about 100 km (62 miles) above the surface of the Moon, then use the Moon’s gravitational force to propel itself into a new deep retrograde, or opposite, orbit about 64,000 km (40,000 miles) from the Moon. Artemis-1, formerly Exploration Mission-1, is the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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NASA’s Artemis I mission
Space Launch System launches the uncrewed Orion spacecraft