On 16 November 2022, at 1:47 am Eastern Standard Time, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) lifted off from Kennedy Space Center (KSC), to become the world's most powerful rocket successfully launched. The Artemis-I version of SLS, with a liftoff thrust of 39.1 MN (8.8 × 106 lb), exceeded the thrust of the previous record holder, the Saturn V, by about 13%.