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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Adam Juniper

"My favorite moonshot picture? It's the one that looks like it's taken with a drone, of course" – shot from surprisingly close to the Artemis II rocket by NASA's official Cessna...

Artemis II launch seen from a plane nearby.

NASA publishes a lot of videos of a launch, as it did with the historic Artemis II launch on April 1, but my favourite clip of the launch has to be the one captured from an officially-hired small plane, a Cessna, which orbited the launch pad.

With the unengaging name 'Cam 11 View' in this compilation of every shot of the launch of the SLS (19:32), the camera tracks the rocket from the pad all the way through Max-Q, Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) separation, and beyond – all shot from a camera on board a plane with no more than 14 seats.

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