# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/ClUIbJotdvU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15341249-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Posted:** 2022-11-23T19:05:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

POV: You’re a rocket.

At 1:47 am EST (6:47 UTC) on November 16, NASA’s Orion spacecraft launched aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from historic Launch Complex 39B at NASAKennedy Space Center. The launch officially began the #Artemis I mission.

This footage was captured from a camera mounted on Orion’s crew module adapter.

The Orion spacecraft is currently headed toward a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. The orbit is “distant” in the sense that it’s at a high altitude from the surface of the Moon, and it’s “retrograde” because Orion will travel around the Moon opposite the direction the Moon travels around Earth.

Credit: NASA

#SpaceLaunchSystem #MegaMoonRocket #Orion #POV #Launch #RocketLaunch #NASA #Space #Moon #LunarMission #SLS #STEM #NASAKennedy

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rocketlaunch, nasakennedy, nasa, spacelaunchsystem, megamoonrocket, stem, launch, space, moon, lunarmission, artemis, sls, pov, orion

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