🚀 Launch!

The NASA SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft launched the Artemis I test flight to the Moon from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39B earlier today.

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SLS and Artemis 1 lifting off LC-39B
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Artemis I riding a column of fire from two solid rocket boosters and four RS-25 engines on its way to the Moon

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Liftoff of Artemis I to the Moon
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Incredible views of booster separation from one of the tracking cameras at Patrick Space Force Base!

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Solid rocket booster separation and burnout as the SLS core stage continues toward delivering Orion to orbit.

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Orion Separation

The human-rated crew capsule is on the way to the moon after a seemingly picture-perfect launch on the maiden flight of NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket.

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Orion Leaving Earth (Timelapse)
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This is the view of Earth via Orion right now! 🤯
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NASA is sharing amazing views right now from the Orion capsule on its way to the Moon
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SLS Artemis I heads moonward
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Want a closer look? These two galaxies are thought to have existed 350 & 450 million years after the big bang (left to right). Unlike our Milky Way, these first galaxies are small and compact, with spherical or disk shapes rather than grand spirals.

‍This discovery suggests that stars might have started forming earlier than expected, perhaps as soon as 100 million years after the big bang. Follow-up observations with Webb’s spectrographs will confirm the distances of these 2 galaxies & help us learn more.

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Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space?

Here in the Kurzgesagt labs we test very important ideas to see what happens when you blow things up or play with black holes. Many of you suggested that we look into an idea that sounds reasonable: Shooting nuclear waste into space. It is one of those concepts that seems like an easy fix for one of the main problems with nuclear energy. But it turns out this idea is not just bad but horribly bad and it gets worse the longer you think about it.

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