'Rocket's Red Glare': How NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission celebrated America's 250th birthday

The mid section of an orange rocket with white side boosters stands against a metal tower. America 250 is decaled on both boosters.

It doesn't get more America than giant rockets and missions to the moon.

That's why NASA painted two giant "America 250" logos on the rocket that launched the Artemis 2 astronauts around the moon earlier this year. The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lifted off on April 1, carrying the Orion spacecraft to orbit with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as well as the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen.