ARTEMIS MOON ROCKET FROM NASA TAKES OFF FROM EARTH

  • 16/11/2022

From Cape Canaveral in Florida, the American space agency Nasa launched its most potent rocket to date.

The 100-meter-tall Artemis vehicle rose into the air in a spectacular display of light and sound.

Its purpose was to launch an astronaut capsule toward the Moon.

For this particular flight, the Orion spacecraft is unmanned, but if everything goes according to plan, astronauts will board it for subsequent lunar surface missions. 

Wednesday's flight followed two previous launch attempts in August and September that were aborted during the countdown because of technical woes.

But such issues were overcome on this occasion, and the Space Launch System, as the rocket is often called, was given the "go" to begin its ascent from the Kennedy Space Center at 01:47 local time (06:47 GMT).

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