Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Mission: 1986Published: 17 Apr 2022
The video recounts the Challenger launch, in which a flame from a solid rocket booster appeared 73 seconds after liftoff and the vehicle came apart.
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
Coverage of the James Webb Space Telescope lifting off on an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Centre on December 25, 2021, at 12:20 GMT.
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.
Mission: 1993Published: 31 Oct 2021
A documentary on the first Hubble servicing mission, flown on Space Shuttle Endeavour, which set out to correct the telescope's flawed mirror and replace failing hardware.
Mission: 2003Published: 22 Oct 2021
A retrospective on the loss of space shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003, during reentry after a roughly two-week science mission, which killed all seven crew members.
Published: 20 Aug 2021
WSJ compares China's Tiangong space station with the International Space Station.
Published: 20 Jul 2021
An overview of NASA's Apollo Program, from Kennedy's goal of a lunar landing and the choice of lunar orbit rendezvous through the Apollo 1 fire, Apollo 7 to 11, and the missions through Apollo 17.
Published: 23 Jun 2021
A documentary-style account of the Mir space station, from its 1986 core module launch to the troubled year 1997.
Published: 11 May 2021
Servicing Mission 4 was the fifth and final servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Published: 24 Apr 2021
Space Shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble telescope on 24 April 1990, but its 2.5 meter main mirror had a small flaw that made images blurry.
Published: 1 Mar 2021
NASA's Servicing Mission 3B, flown on space shuttle Columbia as STS-109, was the fourth visit to the Hubble Space Telescope and lasted 12 days with five spacewalks.
Published: 23 Feb 2021
BBC News reports on NASA's release of video of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars, recorded by seven dedicated cameras.
NASA released first-of-its-kind footage of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars, showing the final minutes of the descent up to touchdown.
Published: 22 Feb 2021
NASA's official video combines real footage from the rover's entry, descent and landing cameras with mission control call-outs from Perseverance's landing in Jezero Crater on Feb.
Mission: 1997Published: 16 Feb 2021
Servicing Mission 2 to the Hubble Space Telescope launched on Feb.
Published: 15 Feb 2021
Engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober tours NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ahead of the Perseverance landing on Mars, explaining the why, where, how, what and who of the mission.
Mission: 1970Published: 1 Jan 2021
After an oxygen tank rupture crippled Apollo 13, NASA and the crew used the lunar module as a lifeboat.
Mission: 1970Published: 25 Dec 2020
Part one of a documentary on Apollo 13 covers the crew change, the launch, the pogo vibration on ascent and the oxygen tank rupture 56 hours into the flight.
Published: 22 Dec 2020
NASA/JPL animations show key events in entry, descent and landing for the Perseverance rover, due to land on Mars on February 18, 2021.
Mission: 1993Published: 2 Dec 2020
Servicing Mission 1 launched on December 2, 1993, aboard the space shuttle Endeavour to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, whose primary mirror had been ground too flat.
Mission: 2003Published: 31 Oct 2020
A NOVA documentary on the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke apart over Texas on re-entry in 2003 and killed all seven crew.
Published: 21 Sep 2020
Skylab was a solely US space station that orbited Earth between 1973 and 1979.
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