Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Published: 2 Nov 2026
Voyager 1 launched on September 5th, 1977 for a grand tour of the giant planets, flying past Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980.
Voyager 1 launched on September 5, 1977, after its twin Voyager 2, and flew past Jupiter and Saturn before heading out of the solar system.
Published: 1 Nov 2026
Voyager 1, launched on September 5, 1977, is about to reach one light-day from Earth, expected at 2:16 a.m.
Voyager 1, launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, is still operating in interstellar space and on November 18, 2026 is due to become the first human-made object to reach one light-day from Earth,…
On February 14, 1990, after 12 years of travel, Voyager 1 was commanded to turn its cameras back toward the inner solar system at Carl Sagan's request.
Mission: 1977Published: 31 Jul 2026
A documentary tracing the Voyager probes from their 1977 launches through flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune to their journey beyond the heliosphere.
Published: 21 Mar 2026
A documentary on NASA's twin Voyager probes, from the 1970s planetary alignment and the 1977 launches through the encounters with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Mission: 1977Published: 31 May 2025
The video looks at the golden records on Voyagers 1 and 2, launched in 1977, and asks whether a hypothetical Voyager 3 would carry one today.
Published: 28 May 2025
A long documentary on the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, from the Grand Tour concept and spacecraft design to the golden record and the discoveries at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and the edge…
Published: 30 Sep 2024
Five spacecraft, Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2 and New Horizons, are on one-way trajectories out of the solar system.
Mission: 1977Published: 23 Dec 2023
A documentary on the Voyager probes, launched from Cape Canaveral in 1977, following them past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and out to interstellar space.
Published: 11 Aug 2023
An explainer on the engineering choices that let the Voyager probes keep working for about 45 years, including plutonium-238 power generators, backup thrusters, onboard computers and 8-track tape…
Published: 31 Jul 2018
New Horizons flew by Pluto in July 2015 and returned the first close images of its surface.
Published: 28 Jan 2018
NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in 2015 after a nine-year journey, passing about 12,500 kilometers from the surface on 14 July.
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