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The entire volume of civilized space watched: Earth, the LEO orbitals, the colonies. Everyone watched, this was a turning point in history. Children were awakened and dragged by their parents, to watch the huge sail. Where there had been nothing in one moment, suddenly something appeared: An oval that stretched out, white and with Chinese characters written on its surface – Each ideogram at least five thousand kilometers long – and flying above Earth. So much light was reflected that suddenly it was day on the dark side of Earth, as the ship flew out, and the light that bounced off its sail was so redshifted that the night-turned day had a pink hue, like a constant sunrise, one that lasted twelve seconds, but was spread out all over the sky and not just above the line of the horizon. It lasted twelve seconds and then it was over, and where the Carl Sagan went a trail of roses and festivities was left behind.
It reached most of its speed during the first hour of flight, and after that, it just flew out on what little light it caught beyond the orbit of Saturn, slowly accelerating away.
Soon it had reached its full velocity, the spacecraft plowed through the heliopause, one light-day from the Sun, and fluttered out into interstellar space.

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When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions

You can find a well-seeded torrent of it in 720p anywhere. Man's journey into space, in HD, presented by the people who were there.

Holy shit look at that motherfucker, he's going to space.