Core stage separation of Artemis II. Godspeed!



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49 Comments

  1. IsChristianAwake on

    Might be one of my favorite space videos of all time.

    This looks straight out of a movie. Oh my goodness.

  2. So beautiful. This shot took my breath away on the live stream. We should be doing more of this and less fighting.

  3. I love how they put their best camera in the top of the first stage, what a beautiful shot.

  4. the_jivest_turkey on

    Unreal. Godspeed to the brave explorers.

    And as always, I’m in awe of the incredible individuals that make these moments possible.

  5. This shit is so cool man. People 100 years ago would have never thought and i just wonder what would blow our minds 100 years from now

  6. VisceralMonkey on

    As jaded as I am right now, this brings me close to tears.

    Godspeed Artemis II.

  7. its wild to me how small the second stage is. Like the core stage is so massively huge and is needed to get into orbit. Its almost comical how small the rest of it is to get to the moon. Unless maybe im just underestimating how efficient and powerful rockets have gotten these days.

  8. Oneuponedown88 on

    It’s just absolutely mind blowing that I had no idea this was gonna happen today. Or even that this was actually even happening at all. Im not sure how I feel about that. Haha.

  9. Ange1ofD4rkness on

    I think the same, smoke em if you got them works here? (I just remember from Event Horizon they use that line, and was like “so that’s what that relates to?”)

  10. Slight_Monk3314 on

    Can we reuse this in the intro for our Buck Roger reboot? Asking for a friend,

  11. Anyone know if the footage will be uploaded to watch back as a proper video, rather than how low quality and intermittent the live stream was?

  12. Easily could be most memorable moment till now. Fun to watch it live but was dissatisfied by the fact feed didn’t last very long.

  13. Simply amazing to see this in real time. Nerve wracking, in the sense, none of this is ordinary. As a child I thought all of Apollo was just point and shoot. Now I am much more tense.

  14. I gasped when I saw this shot on the stream. It’s absolutely gorgeous. I’m so excited to see what other footage and images we get from this flight.

  15. JimHeckdiver on

    Is it just me, or was the officially NASA footage just very lackluster?

    It felt like everything didn’t have a tenth the flair of a regular shuttle launch used to. No countdown, no actual shots of the launch until she was well off the pad. I was surprisingly let down.

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled about the mission, I just wish now that I’d watched a different feed for the live cast.

  16. OminOus_PancakeS on

    And they laughed at me when I said it’s so cold in space, there _has_ to be snow 👍🏻

  17. VengenaceIsMyName on

    Gorgeous shot. Incredible implications. It’s odd for such a short clip to evoke so many different emotions all at once.

  18. silent_thinker on

    Now imagine if we funded NASA even close to the level we funded the military.

    We’d probably have a moon base by now, and have sent man to Mars.

  19. Icy_Foundation3534 on

    honestly we don’t have better audio compression algos yet? Sounds exactly how it did in the 60’s