To celebrate the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon, National Geographic’s photo team deployed our special high-resolution, slow-motion camera—the s2.5k by Freefly Systems— to record the blast-off in jaw-dropping detail at 2,000 frames per second. This video includes audio from NASA's terminal countdown during the mission's April 1, 2026 launch (but it is not synched with the timing of the footage captured by the slow-motion camera.)
Video by Mark Thiessen and Eric Flynn
Photo Engineer: Tom O'Brien
Edited by Ruben Rodriguez Perez
Audio: Artemis II Live Stream | NASA
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