A pillar of flame streaming beneath them, four humans set off for the moon on Wednesday, undertaking the first mission of its kind in more than half a century.
The astronauts — three Americans and a Canadian — are part of the NASA mission, known as Artemis II, that aims to loop around the moon in a 10-day swing.
NASA hopes the flight will be a step toward a full revival of U.S. lunar ambitions. By the end of 2030, it aims to put people on the surface of the moon for the first time since 1972.
Here is how launch day looked.
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