Nasa launches most powerful rocket in history in first step toward return to moon

Spectators watch as the Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photograph: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty ImagesNasa launched its most powerful rocket early on Wednesday as it sent an uncrewed capsule on the 25-day Artemis mission to orbit the moon and return safely to Earth.

The mission, called Artemis I, marks the inaugural flight of both the SLS rocket and the Orion crew capsule. And it kicks off Nasa’s multi-mission Artemis program, which is focused on sending astronauts, including the first woman and the first person of colour, back to the moon’s surface by as early as 2025.

In six days, Orion will come within 97km of the lunar surface, using the moon’s gravity to enter an elongated orbit. Orion needs to demonstrate that it can get in and out of lunar orbit before returning home, surviving re-entry in Earth’s atmosphere and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on December 11th.

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