Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Published: 2 Nov 2026
A souvenir box of thirteen NASA photograph cards, labelled "Columbia Space Shuttle", is used to tell the story of the shuttle era.
Published: 31 Oct 2026
NASA's reimagined Artemis III is described as a 14-day crewed Earth-orbit mission planned for summer 2027, in which an Orion crew of four docks with a Blue Origin Blue Moon Mark II prototype and a…
Published: 23 Oct 2026
A roundup of space news from early to late October, covering launches from Korea, China, the US and Japan, including Japan's H3 launch of the Martian Moons Explorer.
Published: 15 Oct 2026
NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 held a postflight news conference at Johnson Space Center after returning to Earth on Oct.
ESA's documentary traces Galileo and EGNOS from the 1990s, when Europe sought independence from GPS, through the GIOVE-A and GIOVE-B test satellites and the first operational launches.
Published: 10 Oct 2026
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot arrived at Cologne Airport two days after splashing down off California with her Crew-12 crewmates, ending 237 days aboard the ISS for her epsilon mission.
Published: 8 Oct 2026
NASA's live coverage follows Dragon Freedom carrying Crew-12 from deorbit burn through re-entry to splashdown off Los Angeles at 8:34 a.m.
Official broadcast of the NASA SpaceX Crew-12 return, in which Dragon Freedom carried Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA's Sophie Adenot and Andrey Fedyaev to a splashdown off Los Angeles at 8:34 a.m.
Published: 7 Oct 2026
A roundup of space news from roughly the last two weeks before October 6th.
ESA's animated episode follows Hera and its CubeSats Juventas and Milani as they reach the double asteroid system Didymos and Dimorphos.
ESA's broadcast follows the Crew-12 Dragon Freedom spacecraft undocking from the International Space Station on 7 October 2026 with Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot and Andrey Fedyaev.
NASA and SpaceX coverage of Dragon Freedom undocking from the International Space Station with the four Crew-12 members at 8:05 a.m.
NASA's coverage follows Crew-12 as the hatch between Dragon Freedom and the International Space Station closes at 5:05 a.m.
ESA's broadcast of NASA's Mission Control Houston coverage shows the Crew-12 hatch closure between Dragon Freedom and the International Space Station, at 5:05 a.m.
Published: 4 Oct 2026
Crew-12 members Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot and Andrey Fedyaev say farewell to the International Space Station crew.
Published: 2 Oct 2026
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot performed three spacewalks in under 15 days, spending 19 hours and 42 minutes outside the International Space Station.
Published: 30 Sep 2026
YES2 (Young Engineers Satellite 2) was a European Space Agency tether experiment carried on the Russian Foton-M3 spacecraft.
ESA's documentary covers two years of the Smile mission, a 50–50 collaboration between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Published: 16 Sep 2026
In a pre-departure news conference from orbit, the four Crew-12 members (NASA's Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA's Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev) recap their roughly seven…
Mission: 2026Published: 15 Sep 2026
A Vega C rocket lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana carrying ESA's FLEX satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite, using the new Vespa Plus R adapter to deliver them to…
Published: 1 Sep 2026
NASA's live coverage of U.S. Spacewalk 99, in which ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir worked outside the International Space Station.
Published: 25 Aug 2026
NASA's live coverage of US Spacewalk 98, in which NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot work to finish replacing a failed space-to-ground antenna (ESCAN) on the station's Z1 truss.
Published: 18 Aug 2026
NASA's live coverage follows astronauts Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot as they prepare for and begin a spacewalk of about six and a half hours to replace a faulty Space-to-Ground antenna on the…
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.
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