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.
Mission: 1970Published: 1 Nov 2026
Apollo 13 lifted off on April 11, 1970, and 55 hours and 53 minutes into the flight an oxygen tank exploded after Houston asked the crew to stir the tanks.
Mission: 1986Published: 1 Nov 2026
A documentary on the Challenger launch decision of 28 January 1986, which ended with the breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after liftoff and the deaths of all seven on board.
Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986, killing all seven astronauts on board.
Mission: 2003Published: 1 Nov 2026
Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas on 1 February 2003 and all seven astronauts were killed.
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…
Scott Manley tells the stories of four satellites that went silent and later transmitted again: LES-1, AMSAT-OSCAR 7, IMAGE and BeeSat 1.
Published: 29 Oct 2026
NASA's coverage follows Anil Menon and CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk through US Spacewalk 100, the 285th ISS spacewalk for assembly, maintenance and upgrades.
Published: 23 Oct 2026
NASA leaders at Kennedy Space Center updated progress on assembling the SLS for Artemis 3, a low Earth orbit docking-test mission planned for summer 2027, and on plans for an Artemis 4 crewed lunar…
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: 20 Oct 2026
NASA officials preview US spacewalks 100 and 101, planned for Oct.
NASA's October 2026 Moon Base update covers the robotic and crewed rovers planned for the lunar South Pole.
Published: 18 Oct 2026
A live conversation with two Goddard team members about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which launched on a Falcon Heavy on August 30 and is traveling to Sun-Earth L2.
Published: 15 Oct 2026
NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 held a postflight news conference at Johnson Space Center after returning to Earth on Oct.
Mission: 2026Published: 15 Oct 2026
NASA's live coverage follows the uncrewed SpaceX cargo Dragon of the 35th commercial resupply mission as it approached and docked to the International Space Station's Harmony zenith port.
Mission: 2026Published: 13 Oct 2026
NASASpaceflight's live broadcast of the Falcon 9 launch of the CRS-35 cargo Dragon (C211, fourth flight) from SLC-40 on October 13, with an instantaneous window at 06:33:44 EDT.
NASA and SpaceX launched the 35th commercial resupply services mission on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:33 a.m.
Mission: 2026Published: 9 Oct 2026
NASA's live coverage shows the Cygnus XL spacecraft released from Canadarm2 at 11:44 a.m.
Published: 8 Oct 2026
Adam Savage tries to identify five objects from the National Air and Space Museum collection: a blink comparator, a Stardust sample collector, the Viking lander weather station, a plasma-wave…
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 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.
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