Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Published: 29 Apr 2026
A documentary tour of the International Space Station told partly through ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet as he prepares for a six-month stay.
Mission: 2026Published: 28 Mar 2026
Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on 28 March 2026 NZT, carrying the two Celeste IOD demonstrator satellites for the European Space Agency.
Published: 17 Dec 2025
A guided point-of-view tour of the International Space Station, recorded by astronauts on Oct.
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…
Mission: 2021Published: 6 Sep 2025
A documentary following ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on his second trip to the International Space Station, Mission Alpha, which launched on April 23rd, 2021 aboard a Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon…
Published: 12 Jul 2025
A long-form history of the International Space Station, from early station proposals and Space Station Freedom through the Shuttle-era assembly, Expeditions, the Columbia pause, commercial cargo and…
Published: 26 Mar 2025
The B1M explains how the International Space Station was built from Zarya in 1998 onward and why it is planned to be brought down in 2030 by a specially modified SpaceX Dragon, ending in the ocean…
Published: 17 Feb 2025
A documentary tour of the International Space Station, described as covering 9,700 m² and about 400 tons.
Mission: 2021Published: 20 Dec 2024
An animated explainer of how space telescopes work, comparing Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope.
Mission: 1998Published: 22 Jul 2024
The video explains why the International Space Station is due to be deorbited by SpaceX around 2030 and sent into the sea at Point Nemo.
Mission: 1998Published: 7 May 2024
A DW documentary on the International Space Station, whose first module, Zarya, was launched on a Proton rocket on 20 November 1998.
Published: 11 Feb 2024
A National Geographic Superstructures episode that takes the International Space Station apart system by system.
Mission: 2023Published: 26 Aug 2023
SpaceX and NASA's live coverage of the Crew-7 launch on a Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center on August 26, 2023, at 3:27 a.m.
Mission: 2023Published: 1 Jul 2023
SpaceX launched ESA's Euclid space telescope on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida at 11:12 a.m.
Published: 7 Mar 2022
A documentary filmed partly in 3D aboard the International Space Station, following ESA astronaut André Kuipers on his long stay on the ISS and Alexander Gerst through his training in Houston,…
Mission: 2021Published: 25 Dec 2021
Official NASA and ESA broadcast of the James Webb Space Telescope launch on an Ariane 5 from French Guiana on 25 December 2021.
An Ariane 5 (flight VA256) launched the James Webb Space Telescope from ELA 3 at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou on 25 December 2021 at 12:20 UTC.
Published: 16 Apr 2020
A NASA Goddard documentary on the Hubble Space Telescope, from its shuttle launch and troubled deployment to the mirror flaw and the servicing missions that followed.
Published: 4 Apr 2017
NASA JPL's animated video describes Cassini's Grand Finale, in which the spacecraft, running out of fuel after 20 years in space, makes 22 dives between Saturn and its rings before plunging into the…
Published: 19 Sep 2016
A documentary tracing the technological leaps that made the International Space Station possible, from Salyut's thruster boosts and Skylab's aircraft communications to the Apollo-Soyuz docking and…
Published: 31 Mar 2016
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams leads a room-by-room tour of the International Space Station, showing the sleep stations in Node 2, the bathroom, the galley, the exercise equipment, the spacesuits…
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