Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
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: 23 May 2025
A design-focused look at the Mir space station, covering its modules, their origins in Salyut, TKS and Buran hardware, and Galina Balashova's interior design.
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.
Published: 14 Oct 2024
A history of the Mir space station from its 1986 core module launch on a Proton rocket to its 2001 deorbit.
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.
Published: 18 Jun 2024
Compares the 33 Raptor engines on SpaceX's Super Heavy booster with the five F1 engines of the Saturn V.
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.
Published: 22 Nov 2023
An animated explainer on how the International Space Station was assembled in its early stages using the Space Shuttle and the Canadarm robotic arm.
Mission: 2023Published: 3 Sep 2023
SpaceX and NASA broadcast the autonomous undocking of Crew Dragon Endeavour from the ISS on September 3, 2023, carrying the four Crew-6 astronauts home.
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.
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: 1986Published: 1 Nov 2021
A history of the Mir space station, whose core module launched on a Proton-K from Baikonur on 19 February 1986.
Published: 23 Jun 2021
A documentary-style account of the Mir space station, from its 1986 core module launch to the troubled year 1997.
Mission: 1971Published: 18 May 2021
Scott Manley marks 50 years since Salyut 1, the first space station, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971.
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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