Watch the launch of NASA's historic mission from a special angle: Passengers on a plane had a "million-dollar" view.

Namely, the footage released by American media shows a view from a commercial flight whose passengers had the opportunity to witness the launch of the mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The plane was flying from Costa Rica to Atlanta in the USA, and at the exact moment of the mission's launch, the aircraft was passing through this area.

Four astronauts embarked on a risky flight around the Moon on Wednesday, marking the first human journey to the Moon in over half a century and an exciting start to NASA's efforts toward a lunar landing in two years. NASA's launch team loaded more than 700,000 gallons of fuel into the 32-story Space Launch System rocket on Wednesday morning, setting the stage for the evening launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Artemis astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, are on board. They will travel several thousand miles beyond the Moon, perform a half-loop, and then immediately return. There is no orbiting the Moon, no stopping for a moonwalk—just a brief flyby and return lasting less than 10 days.

If everything goes smoothly, the Artemis II mission will pave the way for Artemis III, which aims to land a crew on the Moon.