Moon Rocket Core Stage Separation: Camera View | NASA Mission

NASA Artemis II Moon Rocket Core Stage Separation: Camera View

[No audio] Eight minutes into the flight of NASA’s Artemis II Mission, the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket successfully separated from the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) and the Orion spacecraft. This ascent milestone marks the end of the first major propulsion phase of the Artemis II mission and the transition to upper‑stage operations. Separation takes place four minutes and 13 seconds into the video. This view comes from a camera on Orion’s solar array wing #4.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist onboard launched on the Artemis II mission, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA’s Artemis II Mission is taking Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard their Orion spacecraft.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Duration: 5 minutes
Date: April 1, 2026

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