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We rise together back to the moon and beyond. two solid rocket boosters now propelling the vehicle. good control _ propelling the vehicle. good control. 30 seconds into the flight of artemis — control. 30 seconds into the flight of artemis i. this is the greatest period of atmosphere force on the rocket. you are watching — atmosphere force on the rocket. m. are watching bbc breakfast. that is the rocket, finally, after several attempts, leaving the launch pad on its way heading towards the m...

Again quiet here in mission control. houston teams continue monitoring the flight of artemus one. were now 16 miles downrange from the launch pad at kennedy space center traveling over 2800 mph. standing by for solid rocket booster jettison in shortly thereafter. confirmation that the solid rocket boosters have separated these 177 ft boostere flight of orion all four rs 25 engines firing traveling over 3400 mph 46 miles downrange. two minutes and 36 seconds into the flight nominal calls here in ...

Voice of mission control as we now approached the final few seconds of this. the bottom line, this is an uncrewed mission -- nashs return to the moon -- and orbital mission around the moon for 26 days. if it all goes well, then humans will be on the next flight, the test flight around the moon, and then landing on the moon. lets listen to michigan control. >> i didnt burn off igniters and initiate. seven, six, five, four stage engine start -- three, two, one -- boosters and ignition. and lift of...

One, i couldnt believe that after all these delays, two hurricanes, that it was finally launching. but watching it back there, i was also struck by the fact that what this rocket did was it really turned this entire area from night into day in a matter of seconds. it was like a super accelerated sunrise. and then there was also this incredible crackle caused by those solid rocket boosters that not only were just incredibly loud, but you could literally feel them shake your body, shake your skin ...

1986. o-rings exposed to extreme cold on the solid rocket boosters were blamed for the disaster. when the challenger broke apart it killed all seven crew members including schoolteacher christopher mcauliffe. thanks for spending part of your day with me. im michael holmes. do stick around. ill be back with more news in just a moment.

>> first time i saw "columbia" and got close to it, my whole thought was, oh my god, its big. and this is going to go 17,500 miles per hour? >> more than half a million people crowded the beaches around cape kennedy this morning if witness firsthand the first space shuttle launch. >> t-minus ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four -- weve gone for main engine start -- >> we added a giant fuel tank to it and two solid rocket boosters that are the largest pop bottle rockets on the planet. when yo...

And how hard they work. any thoughts you want to share with them about the effort they put in so far? im very proud of the launch team. they do it right. they do it by the book. they do it very professionally. and thats why we have had this extraordinary success that weve had over the years. sometimes we make mistakes, but we try to minimize those because these are human being. lives on the top of that rocket. and i can tell you, when you strap in to that rocket, you are very grateful that youve...

But, yeah, the options going forward are just to go ahead and fix this problem and try to fly as soon as we can. there are other constraints, of course, the availability of the range over at the launch facility and so i think we are looking at, it was said earlier, if its not going to be in the next week or so, it will be in the next several weeks or if we have to roll back it will be a month or so. this is a new vehicle and these things happen, unfortunately. it is using heritage hardware, the ...

And you know first—hand the power of those rs25s and those two solid rocket boosters from your flight. really quickly, before we let you go, you were over there at our vip area as well, had some special guests. you were telling me an interesting story about a guest you had there. there was a young man before he was seven years old. he wanted very much to be an astronomer and he signed a document with other children. that is on artemis. and the reason thats so important, that young man named ga...

Eiuht training. there will be an apollo eight mission _ training. there will be an apollo eight mission where _ training. there will be an apollo eight mission where they - training. there will be an apollo eight mission where they will. training. there will be an apollo l eight mission where they will loop around the moon a comeback. everybody is very excited, we have to do _ everybody is very excited, we have to do our— everybody is very excited, we have to do our test flight first without t...