Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Published: 1 Nov 2026
An explainer on why Starship's Super Heavy booster has 33 Raptor engines, giving four reasons: redundancy, avoiding the combustion instability that troubled huge engines like the F-1, the throttle…
A walk through the six rovers that have driven on Mars: Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, Perseverance and Zhurong.
Published: 15 Oct 2026
NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 held a postflight news conference at Johnson Space Center after returning to Earth on Oct.
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 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.
Mission: 2026Published: 2 Oct 2026
NASA's live coverage follows Crew-13 from its 11:10 a.m.
Mission: 2026Published: 1 Oct 2026
After Crew-13 lifted off on a Falcon 9 on Oct.
NASA's live broadcast of the Crew-13 launch countdown, covering four crew members aboard Dragon Grace on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40, targeting liftoff at 11:10 a.m.
Mission: 2026Published: 30 Sep 2026
NASA held the prelaunch news conference for SpaceX Crew-13 on Sept.
Published: 30 Sep 2026
YES2 (Young Engineers Satellite 2) was a European Space Agency tether experiment carried on the Russian Foton-M3 spacecraft.
Mission: 2026Published: 19 Sep 2026
NASA's live coverage follows the unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 96 cargo ship through its final approach and automated docking to the Poisk module of the International Space Station.
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: 16 Sep 2026
NASA's live coverage follows the launch of the uncrewed Progress 96 cargo craft on a Soyuz 2.1b rocket from Baikonur, carrying 2.8 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 75 crew.
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: 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.
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…
Published: 6 Dec 2025
This documentary-style explainer covers the early assembly of the International Space Station, from Zarya and Unity in 1998 through the 14 shuttle missions up to 2003.
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