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NASA launches new rocket on maiden flight to Moon

AFP

Wed Nov 16, 2022 01:02 PM Last update on: Wed Nov 16, 2022 05:37 PM

NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from launch complex 39-B on the unmanned Artemis1 mission to the moon at Cape Canaveral, Florida, US November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

NASA launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday, in a spectacular blaze of light and sound that marked the start of the space agency's new flagship program, Artemis.

The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) blasted off from the storied Kennedy Space Center in Florida at around 01:48 am (0648 GMT).