NASA just blasted its new megarocket on historic journey to the moon

Spearing the sky from a tiny spit of land in the Atlantic Ocean, NASA's 32-story mega moon rocket gleamed statuesque in the darkness.

Then as the countdown peeled to ignition, the towering monument topped with the new Orion spacecraft rumbled with a force equal to that of 160,000 Corvette engines.

The eruption shook miles...