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Raw NASA camera footage, taken from the Space Launch System's (SLS) core stage, shows the SLS separation of the solid rocket boosters two minutes and 11 seconds after liftoff.

At 1:47 am EST (6:47 UTC) on November 16, NASA’s Orion spacecraft launched aboard the SLS rocket from historic Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on a path to the Moon, officially beginning the Artemis I mission.

This mission is the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, the SLS rocket, and Kennedy Space Center ground systems.