The 4 rockets still blowing used to serve on Shuttle. *salute*

Congrats to the team! It has been a long road, but she’s out of the gate! To the Moon!

Go #Artemis 1! 🚀 Congrats from the Hubble team on launching into a new era of space exploration!

MECO and core stage sep confirmed; Orion is in orbit #Artemis1

Ten minutes ago, it was on the ground. Now it's in orbit. Hats off to the #Artemis team. I am genuinely astonished.

Orion's European Service Module will deploy its solar panels in about 10 min. The vehicle will reach 1808 km apogee at about 0740 UTC, 52 min into flight.

Thank you to the four RS-25s that have now reached the end of their careers. So long E2045, E2056, E2058, E2060.

The space coast hasn't heard that distinctive Shuttle SRB crackle for more than a decade.

Orion's solar array wings have begun deployment.

To the Moon! #Artemis1

Solar array wings are being deployed! The distinctive X-wing solar panels on the European Service Module are now unfolding, getting solar power and recharging its batteries.

The moment #Artemis1 turned night into day… and made history on its trip to the moon WESH 2 News

Technically, Orion is in orbit, but it has very low perigee to ensure that the giant core stage of the SLS rocket reenters safely. It also means that the Orion/upper stage stack should fire its own engine in apogee to enter a more stable parking orbit around the Earth.

Nice one here with Earth #Artemis1

Huh, that's a neat factoid. European Space Agency provided the solar arrays, first time a European component has powered an American spacecraft.

Cameras now showing Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston. All 4 solar arrays now deployed. - #Artemis1🚀 #SLS/#Orion #NASA #Moon #space

Nearly 50 years elapsed between these two photos. #WeAreGoing!!! ⬇️ #Apollo17 at 12:33 a.m. ET on Dec. 7, 1972 ↘️ #Artemis I 1:47 a.m. ET today

The best today could have been was nominal, and so far it has been. That is awesome and celebrateable! Nominal is the best rocket engineering word! But we got a looooooooong way to do before we can punch the moon in the face with human feet like Apollo did

Kenya Space Agency local Space partner Sayarilabs today made history by launching the first ever space hardware produced locally. The hardware, SPP board is a communication board to be used on Janus -1 satellite by Antaris. This satellite was launched aboard the ISRO SSLV-D2 V.