Going back, with nobody aboard

Artemis I launched at ten to two in the morning and sent an empty Orion capsule 432,000 kilometres from Earth, further than any spacecraft built for people has ever been.

The seats held two instrumented mannequin torsos measuring radiation. The rocket had been rolled out and back four times over two years for hydrogen leaks and hurricanes, and when it finally went it was bright enough to read by along the Florida coast.