Watch the moment Nasa's Artemis 1 blasts off to the moon – video

The unmanned lunar rocket Artemis 1 lifted off from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1.04am ET on Wednesday. Artemis 1 will be on its journey for 25 days, going beyond the dark side of the moon, then returning to Earth and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean in December. The success of this mission is crucial to the Artemis 2 and 3 flights that will follow and which will take humans to and from the moon

• Nasa's Artemis 1, most powerful rocket in history, blasts off to moon