Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Published: 1 Nov 2026
A walk through the six rovers that have driven on Mars: Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, Perseverance and Zhurong.
Published: 16 Sep 2026
An analysis of China's Tiangong space station, which the video says is about a sixteenth the mass of the ISS yet carries 25 experiment cabinets against the ISS's 31 and 67 exposed payload slots…
Published: 7 Dec 2025
A five-minute survey of space stations: Salyut 1, Skylab, the Salyut program, Mir, the ISS, Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2, the Tiangong Space Station, and planned future stations such as the Lunar…
Published: 17 Apr 2025
An explainer on China's Tiangong space station, in orbit since 2021, covering its predecessors Tiangong 1 and 2, its Tianhe core module and two science modules, and its five research themes.
Published: 10 Dec 2022
An explainer on daily life aboard China's Tiangong space station after the Mengtian module docked and Shenzhou 15 arrived for the first in-orbit crew handover, with six taikonauts aboard.
Published: 29 Nov 2022
CGTN's Wu Lei gives a tour of China's Tiangong space station, ahead of the Shenzhou-15 crew's flight.
Published: 20 Aug 2021
WSJ compares China's Tiangong space station with the International Space Station.
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