Liftoff Videos

Every mission, with the videos that tell it

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Space Shuttle Columbia lifting off on STS-1, the first Shuttle flight, 12 April 1981
Photo: NASA / Public domain (US government work)

Agency

Who ran the mission: NASA, the Soviet and Russian programmes, ESA, China, India, Japan and the launch companies.

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A Saturn V rocket lifting off from Launch Complex 39A with Apollo 11, 16 July 1969
Photo: NASA / Public domain (US government work)

Vehicle

The rockets and spacecraft that flew, from Saturn V and the Space Shuttle to Falcon 9, Orion and Starship.

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The Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle in landing configuration, above the Moon, seen from the command module Columbia
Photo: NASA / Michael Collins (Apollo 11) / Public domain (US government work)

Program

The family a mission belongs to: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, the Space Shuttle, the Space Station, Artemis, Starship.

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The International Space Station above the curve of the Earth, photographed from Space Shuttle Endeavour after undocking in 2011
Photo: NASA (STS-134 crew) / Public domain (US government work)

Destination

Where the mission went: Earth orbit and the Space Station, the Moon, Mars, the outer planets and beyond.

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The Hubble Space Telescope above the Earth after its final servicing mission in 2009
Photo: NASA (STS-125 crew) / Public domain (US government work)

Mission type

What the mission set out to do: land people on the Moon, carry crew to a station, put a telescope in orbit, land a rover.

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People in space

Browse videos by people in space.

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Station module

Browse videos by station module.

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