Artemis lift-off: NASA successfully launches massive Moon rocket

NASA’s new Moon rocket has blasted off on its debut flight with three test dummies on board, bringing the United States a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo programme 50 years ago.
If all goes well during the three-week, make-or-break shakedown flight, the 32-storey tall rocket will propel an empty crew capsule into a wide orbit around the Moon, and then the capsule will return to Earth with a splashdown in the Pacific in December.