Liftoff Videos

Every mission, with the videos that tell it

Where we’ve been

Which planets, moons, asteroids and comets have we actually reached, how, and when did we first get there? The table lists every body in our selection of notable missions, with the highest level of visit: a flyby, an orbit, a landing, or people on the surface. The Moon is the only body where people have landed.

  • 21bodies visited in our list of notable missions
  • 9bodies with a landing
  • 1body people have walked on: the Moon
  • 42missions in the list

21 bodies

EarthPlanetOrbitedSputnik 1 (1957)Vanguard 1 (1958)3
MoonMoonPeople landedLuna 1 (1959)Artemis II (2026)9
VenusPlanetLandedVenera 7 (1970)Magellan (1989)5
MercuryPlanetOrbitedMariner 10 (1973)BepiColombo (2018)3
MarsPlanetLandedMariner 4 (1964)Perseverance (2020)8
JupiterPlanetOrbitedPioneer 10 (1972)Galileo (1989)5
SaturnPlanetOrbitedPioneer 11 (1973)Cassini-Huygens (1997)4
UranusPlanetFlew pastVoyager 2 (1977)Voyager 2 (1977)1
NeptunePlanetFlew pastVoyager 2 (1977)Voyager 2 (1977)1
TitanMoon of SaturnLandedCassini-Huygens (1997)Cassini-Huygens (1997)1
PlutoDwarf planetFlew pastNew Horizons (2006)New Horizons (2006)1
ArrokothKuiper Belt objectFlew pastNew Horizons (2006)New Horizons (2006)1
VestaAsteroidOrbitedDawn (2007)Dawn (2007)1
CeresDwarf planetOrbitedDawn (2007)Dawn (2007)1
ErosAsteroidLandedNEAR Shoemaker (1996)NEAR Shoemaker (1996)1
ItokawaAsteroidLandedHayabusa (2003)Hayabusa (2003)1
RyuguAsteroidLandedHayabusa2 (2014)Hayabusa2 (2014)1
BennuAsteroidLandedOSIRIS-REx (2016)OSIRIS-REx (2016)1
Halley's CometCometFlew pastGiotto (1985)Giotto (1985)1
Comet 67PCometLandedRosetta (2004)Philae (2004)2
SunStarOrbitedParker Solar Probe (2018)Solar Orbiter (2020)2

When we first got to each one

Bodies first reached, by decade of the first launchBodies
  • Flew past
  • Orbited
  • Landed
  • People landed
02461950s21960s11970s61980s11990s22000s62010s3024621612631950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s2010s024621612631950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s2010s024621612631950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s2010s024621612631950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s2010s

Source: Launch dates from Wikidata (CC0), pulled 2026-11-02; visit types from NASA, ESA, JAXA mission pages Download the data (CSV)

Each body is counted once, in the decade its first listed mission launched, and coloured by the highest level of visit reached since.

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Bodies first reached, by decade of the first launch
DecadeFlew pastOrbitedLandedPeople landed
1950s0101
1960s0010
1970s2310
1980s1000
1990s0020
2000s2220
2010s0120

Videos

Videos

Where we went, in video

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  1. Crew-12 Leaves the ISS: Dragon Freedom Undocking and Departure

    NASA

  2. Crew-12 Leaves the ISS: Hatch Closure Aboard Dragon Freedom

    NASA

  3. Hera at Didymos: Plan for Two CubeSats and a Close Asteroid Look

    European Space Agency, ESA

  4. Crew-12 Leaves the ISS: Dragon Freedom Undocking Step by Step

    European Space Agency, ESA

  5. Crew-12 Hatch Closure: Dragon Freedom Readies to Leave the ISS

    European Space Agency, ESA

  6. Starship Flight 14 Reaches Orbit and Three Falcons Fly in One Day

    Scott Manley

  7. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Re-Entry & Splashdown

    NASA

  8. Crew-12 Return: Dragon Freedom Splashdown Off Los Angeles

    European Space Agency, ESA

  9. Cygnus XL Departs the ISS: Release, Burn and Re-entry Plan

    NASA

  10. Sophie Adenot Back in Europe After 237 Days on the ISS

    European Space Agency, ESA

  11. CRS-35: Falcon 9 Launches Dragon With Final Two ISS Solar Arrays

    NASA

  12. CRS-35: Falcon 9 Launches Cargo Dragon With Final IROSA Arrays

    NASASpaceflight

  13. Starlink 15-25: Falcon 9 B1088 Launch and Landing at Vandenberg

    NASASpaceflight

  14. Crew-12 Crew Look Back on 237 Days Aboard the ISS

    NASA

  15. SpaceX CRS-35 Dragon Docks at the ISS Harmony Zenith Port

    NASA

  16. Galileo: How Europe Built Its Own Satellite Navigation System

    European Space Agency, ESA

  17. New Glenn Recovery: Blue Origin’s Plan for Weekly Launches

    Spaceflight Now

  18. Roman Space Telescope: Falcon Heavy Launch and Path to L2

    NASASpaceflight

  19. ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101: Final Solar Array Installs

    NASA

  20. NASA Moon Base Rovers: VIPER, Pegasus and the Crewed Lunar Vehicle

    NASA

  21. Bandwagon-5: Falcon 9 Rideshare Launch With Starfall Capsule

    NASASpaceflight

  22. Neutron Delayed to 2027 After Voids Found in Carbon Dome

    Rocket Lab

  23. Artemis 3 Update: Rocket Progress, Landers and the 2028 Plan

    NASA

  24. Rocket Lab’s 98th Electron Launch Deploys Three HawkEye 360 Satellites

    Rocket Lab

  25. Deep Space Updates: MMX to Phobos, Crew-12 Return, Neutron Delay

    Scott Manley

  26. US Spacewalk 100: Installing the Seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array

    NASA

  27. Artemis III: Orion Docks With Blue Moon and Starship in Orbit

    The Space Race

  28. Four Satellites That Came Back: LES-1, AO-7, IMAGE and BeeSat 1

    Scott Manley

  29. Starship Flight 14: First Orbit and 26 Starlink V3 Satellites

    Beyond The Space

  30. Starship Flight 14: How V3 Reached Orbit and Deployed 26 Satellites

    Curiously Brief

  31. Starship Flights 1 to 14: How Build-Fly-Fail-Fix Reached Orbit

    Beyond Liftoff

  32. Starship’s 33 Raptor Engines: Four Reasons Behind Super Heavy

    Celebrity Files

  33. Apollo 13: The Oxygen Tank Failure and the Lunar Module Lifeboat

    Deep Orbit Stories

  34. Challenger STS-51-L: O-Ring Failure, Cold Launch and Return to Flight

    FilmRise Television

  35. Challenger STS-51-L: The Night Engineers Said Don’t Launch

    Margin of Loss

  36. Voyager 1 Nears One Light-Day: Thrusters, Power and the Big Bang

    Googol Space

  37. How Starship’s Tower Catches Super Heavy: Flight 5 and After

    look what's inside

  38. Artemis 3 Becomes an Earth-Orbit Rehearsal for Moon Landers

    Cosmic Enigma

  39. Why Starship’s Heat Shield Uses Hexagonal Tiles and Full Reuse

    Farzad

  40. Challenger: the O-Ring Chart and the Launch-Eve Teleconference

    Failure Point for You

  41. Challenger STS-51-L: The Seals, the Cold and 73 Seconds

    Horror Archive

  42. Apollo 13: The Dropped Tank and Switches Behind the Explosion

    Truth and Proof

  43. Voyager 1 Pale Blue Dot: Why the Cameras Looked Back in 1990

    Anaxa

  44. Challenger’s Wreckage: Why NASA Sealed It in Missile Silos

    Rocketyard

  45. Challenger: How Thiokol’s Engineers Were Overruled the Night Before

    Hubris Engine

  46. Curiosity at 14: Keeping a Mars Rover Running by Remote Control

    Modern Mechanisms

  47. Challenger STS-51-L: O-Ring Warnings, Cabin Evidence, Rogers Findings

    Hidden Timeline

  48. Columbia STS-107: Five Failures Behind the Foam Strike on the Wing

    Holes Aligned

  49. Challenger STS-51-L: O-Rings, Cold and the Overruled Warning

    Cindermap

  50. Voyager 1 Reaches One Light-Day: Power, Memory and the Golden Record

    NumberShock

  51. How the Sky Crane Landed Curiosity on Mars in Seven Minutes

    Future Systems Explained

  52. Apollo 13: How a Thermostat Error Led to the Oxygen Tank Blast

    The Last Link

  53. Apollo 13: How an Oxygen Tank Failure Nearly Stranded Three Men

    Gloamhall

  54. Six Mars Rovers Compared: Landings, Discoveries and Distances

    Cardsplained

  55. Voyager 1 and 2: Planetary Tour to One Light-Day From Earth

    Deep Orbit Stories

  56. Challenger STS-51-L: The Cold O-Ring and the Launch Call

    Matter & Empire

  57. Apollo 13: The Tank Flaw and Crew’s Lifeboat Return

    The Third Eye English

  58. Challenger STS-51-L: The O-Ring Warning and the 73-Second Flight

    CliphangerEntertainment

  59. Space Shuttle Story in a Card Box: Enterprise, Challenger, Columbia

    The Record Institute

  60. Voyager 1: How It Proved It Had Reached Interstellar Space

    Oruvi
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Voyager 1: How It Proved It Had Reached Interstellar Space

Oruvi

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Dates are when each video was first published on YouTube.

How these numbers are counted

This is a selection of notable missions, not every spacecraft ever sent. The list of missions and the level of each visit (flyby, orbit, landing) are kept by hand from NASA, ESA, JAXA and other agency pages; launch dates come from Wikidata. “First” and “latest” mean the first and last mission in this list, by launch date, not necessarily the first or last mission to arrive. A body appears only once at its highest level, so Mars shows as landed even though most Mars missions are orbiters.

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0), with visit details from NASA, ESA and JAXA