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NASA launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday, marking the start of the space agency's new flagship program, Artemis. The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) blasted off from the storied Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:47 am (0647 GMT). IMAGES
A Soyuz-MS 02 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Wednesday, bound for the International Space Station. The spacecraft is carrying Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov, Kazakh cosmonaut Andrei Borisenko, and US astronaut Shane Kimbrough, who will spend four months aboard the ISS to conduct experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science before returning home in February.
A NASA probe heads into space on an unprecedented quest to collect samples from an asteroid, in hopes of learning more about the origins of life. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
A rocket carrying small satellites called CubeSats, which scientists hope can transmit vastly larger amounts of data, is launched from California. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
The suborbital Black Brant IX blasts off carrying new technology aimed at making space exploration less expensive and less dangerous, NASA says. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).