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NASA’s Artemis II Launches to the Moon: Everything That Happened in 12 Minutes

Watch NASA’s historic Artemis II launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida as four astronauts forge a new path around the moon and travel farther than any human has ever gone before. Read more about NASA’s Artemis Mission on CNET.com Liftoff: NASA’s Artemis II Is in Space, the First Human Trip to the Moon…

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Watch NASA’s historic Artemis II launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida as four astronauts forge a new path around the moon and travel farther than any human has ever gone before.

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Liftoff: NASA’s Artemis II Is in Space, the First Human Trip to the Moon in 50 Years

0:00 Introduction of the Artemis II astronauts
0:21 Artemis II astronauts say goodbye to loved ones
1:04 Artemis II astronauts motorcade to the launch site
1:32 Artemis II Crew walks across the Zero Deck
1:54 Artemis II Crew enters the rocket
2:45 Comm Checks inside the Orion Capsule
3:05 Artemis II Launch Director, Charlie Blackwell-Thompson Says Go For Launch
3:50 Countdown to Integrity Launch
6:08 Artemis II Rocket Booster Separation
7:26 Launch Board System Jettison
8:54 Artemis II crosses the Karman Line into Space

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  1. @CNET

    April 1, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    Read more about NASA’s Artemis Mission on CNET.com: Liftoff: NASA’s Artemis II Is in Space, the First Human Trip to the Moon in 50 Years

  2. @blakedesmond

    April 1, 2026 at 8:14 pm

    Simply amazing. God speed and good luck.

  3. @victorswenson7054

    April 1, 2026 at 8:25 pm

    Genesis 1:26-28

  4. @hikalox

    April 1, 2026 at 8:26 pm

    I wish this success.

  5. @victorswenson7054

    April 1, 2026 at 8:27 pm

    Genesis 1:14-19

  6. @ClippyWouldntDoThat

    April 1, 2026 at 8:28 pm

    God bless America 🇺🇸

  7. @TT-on5fb

    April 1, 2026 at 8:34 pm

    I see this often, but why does the rocket 🚀 always curve when going up? Don’t understand this because I get that there’s always going to be resistance when gravity is involved. But shouldn’t we correct this over time? It’s like it’s going somewhere else. Inform me please??… Thank you

    • @teamtaka7

      April 1, 2026 at 8:39 pm

      Because it’s following the curvature of the earth lol that’s just proof the earth is round not flat. Plus the earth is rotating fast and you have to go faster than that speed to escape its gravity…or something like that 😅

  8. @pavanichalla4118

    April 1, 2026 at 9:07 pm

    I love nasa

  9. @Frankie-Tn

    April 1, 2026 at 9:14 pm

    I see this often, but why does the rocket 🚀 always curve when going up? Don’t understand this because I get that there’s always going to be resistance when gravity is involved. But shouldn’t we correct this over time? It’s like it’s going somewhere else. Inform me please??… Thank you ….

  10. @thatguyalex2835

    April 1, 2026 at 9:20 pm

    Shame the team cut out booster separation, but maybe due to paranoia some people have, they did not want to accidentally show a failure. Booster separation is a risky part of launch. Good launch, though. Also, looking forward to SSTO rockets, where one stage is required. Will these happen in the 21st century?

  11. @alenarehacek8313

    April 1, 2026 at 9:20 pm

    Beautiful

  12. @AssadAdam

    April 2, 2026 at 3:28 am

    Lets hope they dont fake it this time

    • @gtone339

      April 2, 2026 at 5:25 am

      😅

  13. @sirnikolas

    April 2, 2026 at 4:41 am

    It’s honestly inspiring to see NASA documenting a “historic breakthrough” using what is clearly a Nokia 8110, the same phone that could survive a direct meteor strike and still have 3 bars of reception.
    Truly, nothing screams advanced spacefaring civilisation like filming a billion‑dollar miracle on a device last updated when dial‑up internet was still a personality trait.
    At this point I’m convinced the Mars Rover is being controlled by Snake II and a very determined intern.

  14. @gtone339

    April 2, 2026 at 5:23 am

    Seems not everyone is fond of the camera man 😅

  15. @emmanuelgamboa2361

    April 2, 2026 at 5:47 am

    SpaceX does it better.

  16. @FullyPresentNow

    April 2, 2026 at 6:41 am

    7:25 Slow it down and zoom in. Lights hanging around the capsule, blinking in and out.

  17. @cosmicpuma

    April 2, 2026 at 6:46 am

    Everyone talking about Space X doing it better 😂 ESA and the Ariane 5 and 6 do it better than both – JWST on Ariane 5 and the new 4 booster Ariane 6 is absolutely crushing everything. .. and all the coverage of these launches and deployments by ESA are what they should be, high quality and classy – Simple.

    But to all the people involved in making this Artemis II launcher and mission possible – Maximum Respect 🔥

    • @locofurioso

      April 2, 2026 at 8:56 am

      Could you please give me your drug dealer’s phone number. That s… is amazing🤡

  18. @DahanLiam

    April 2, 2026 at 6:47 am

    ‏‪4:08‬‏ did the camera-man just fall asleep?

  19. @muhammadsaufi2935

    April 2, 2026 at 7:38 am

    Foolish one who cut the SRB’s separation 🤬

  20. @lennywordslinger

    April 2, 2026 at 8:00 am

    Hi Bob

  21. @samihimas

    April 2, 2026 at 8:09 am

    Even in a 5g era, Apollo missions had better onboard camera than this mission 😢

  22. @damianrobertson7221

    April 2, 2026 at 8:22 am

    NASA has until Artemis IV to improve this shocking camera work! 🤞

  23. @jthunderstriker

    April 2, 2026 at 8:39 am

    Why is the video quality so awful and the cuts and camera so terrible. Was there only one camera watching this launch?

  24. @jthunderstriker

    April 2, 2026 at 8:43 am

    Omg this is the worst launch footage ever

  25. @mikedipsnusandmore1947

    April 2, 2026 at 8:47 am

    It’s all fake and smoking mirrors. They’re not going up into space. I’ve been knowing this for years. You guys can pretend it’s real but I don’t believe it.

    • @GREGGS-z2l

      April 3, 2026 at 2:32 pm

      Prove it

  26. @ibanstein9612

    April 2, 2026 at 8:52 am

    5,4,3,2,1 ok, turn on the lights, turn on the smoke machine and light the propane ok, now let go of the balloon. Ok now play the movie we made a week ago in our film studio. 15,000mph 🙄

  27. @visootsrichainam139

    April 2, 2026 at 9:05 am

    Hello…. Now Watching from Bangkok Thu Apr 2 from Bangkok

  28. @ffactsnapnow

    April 2, 2026 at 9:08 am

    Did you know the last time humans went this far was 1972? 🤯 Over 50 years ago.

  29. @ericsternberger2768

    April 2, 2026 at 10:26 am

    great achivement 🎉 – but dont call this cut „super“ 😢

  30. @driver288

    April 2, 2026 at 11:49 am

    Guessing Flat earthers are having their minds blown now and are trying to find ways of punching a hole in this trip 😂

  31. @Templemunn56

    April 2, 2026 at 12:45 pm

    This would kill me 😂😂😂 Knowing I can’t open the door or even a window for 10 days. My intrusive thoughts will definitely win

  32. @kwuae118

    April 2, 2026 at 1:57 pm

    So let me get this straight – after landing on the Moon in 1969, with all the advancements since then, NASA can now only manage about 25% of what they did back then?

  33. @bagwon

    April 2, 2026 at 3:00 pm

    Somewhere out there there’s a shot of the boosters ejecting, but not here. What terrible editing decisions… what do I have to do to see the actual highlights.

  34. @CRYPTOPSYKER

    April 2, 2026 at 5:34 pm

    Yeah. Here we go. Now every simpleton will be writing gushing comments under every cartoon the puppeteers from NASA show them. Soon the simpleton will watch a missionary from Artemis 2 walk up to the American flag on the Moon and say, “Here I am, approaching the American flag that the Apollo 11 missionaries planted, and now I stand next to it, feeling the continuity.” And the flag will be waving — how romantic. How touching. At that moment, the simpleton will shed a tear. And in another ten years, they’ll show him a real lunar base. All Moon-y and pre-Moon-y. And the gullible simpleton, raised on Hollywood fakes where mugging millionaires pretended to be fighting star wars, will stare at his screen and watch the daily lives of the “astronots.” The astronots, 24/7 — or however long lunar time works — will play lunar volleyball at their lunar station, throw lunar discos with lunar robots, eat lunar food on camera, strum lunar guitars, and do lunar acrobatic exercises. The investments in AI have to pay off. Under those videos, the simpleton will write comments like “Wow, cool guys, you’re advancing scientific progress, keep it up.” At night, the simpleton will turn his nose up at the sky, gaze at the Moon, and replay all those videos in his head. And after him, his children will do the same, and then his grandchildren, clutching plastic Challengers for ten bucks in their tiny hands… This isn’t a lunar exploration program that’s been launched. It’s a program for siphoning off taxpayer money. Those taking part in this show will truly live like star boys and star girls, forming a celestial caste — perfectly earthly — that the gullible simpleton and his taxpaying descendants will support out of their own pockets, generation after generation, and into which they will never, ever be let. What did you think? It’s zoology, folks. We all want to eat.

  35. @HIgodzilla.1

    April 2, 2026 at 5:54 pm

    Anyone notice him log into the iPad 3:00 spot. First, he uses a very basic code, interesting. Second, why have a code on his iPad. Is iPad security really an issue in space, isn’t it only used for work stuff. Ha. In an emergency, hold please, let me log into my iPad. Ha.

  36. @creeib

    April 2, 2026 at 11:26 pm

    🇨🇳 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 🇨🇳

  37. @MarBlox-k1u

    April 3, 2026 at 5:04 am

    So they now have 55 years of the flawed fake Apollo missions to learn from. They will surely not make the same mistakes this time so it looks more believable.

  38. @MarBlox-k1u

    April 3, 2026 at 5:05 am

    WAIT.!!! I thought we didn’t have enough money to keep going to the moon.??? So now with a debt 100X worse – they found the money.???

  39. @Inkomaz1

    April 3, 2026 at 9:15 am

    🤣🤣🤣

  40. @XUBERish

    April 3, 2026 at 11:01 am

    The worlds emotions to this mission is tremendous….. We have bigger challenges at earth, but who cares…. when governments get together to divert attention from real issues of ongoing illegal w@rs and gen0cide…

  41. @dawitmezgebetsegaye7442

    April 3, 2026 at 12:20 pm

    The Usual US Fake propaganda and Delusion!!! Nobody Trusts this Poor Propaganda!!!

  42. @ss-5553

    April 3, 2026 at 1:34 pm

    Nice but waste of money….

  43. @mrcanam

    April 4, 2026 at 1:46 am

    Pay attention to the left you see the cage on a Zip line being pulled down to the ground as they take off. That’s the crew. Smdh

  44. @naudebrandonmazendame9032

    April 4, 2026 at 2:00 am

    Mot ?
    Carbon emissions? 😅😂😂

  45. @amazingamx1255

    April 4, 2026 at 2:14 am

    NASA needs to invest in better Cameras

  46. @paulallen-w9v

    April 4, 2026 at 10:14 pm

    at 4.08 on the video something glides down to the left what is it then again at 4.13

  47. @jerrydrummond9168

    April 5, 2026 at 2:10 pm

    As I write, two card carrying members of the Pentagon are orbiting the moon, scouting for sites to establish lunar colonies for the
    military dictatorship of the Yanqui Empire to plant the poisonous seed of military slavery beyond their Earthly endeavours. The
    mission: to build a lunar launchpad to spread Yanqui military slavery throughout the galaxy. Before Hitler conquered Europe, he first
    had to conquer Poland. Before the Yanqui can conquer the galaxy, he must first conquer the moon. Same goal, same strategy.

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