Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Mission: 2023Published: 17 Aug 2023
Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on August 16 at 11:36 p.m.
Mission: 2023Published: 8 Aug 2023
On August 7, 2023 at 8:57 p.m. PT, a Falcon 9 launched 15 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Mission: 2023Published: 7 Aug 2023
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 carrying 22 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Mission: 2023Published: 28 Jul 2023
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 carrying 22 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida at 12:01 a.m.
Mission: 1986Published: 24 Jul 2023
A minute-by-minute account of Challenger mission STS-51-L, which launched on January 28, 1986 and broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew.
Mission: 2023Published: 24 Jul 2023
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral on July 23 at 8:50 p.m.
Mission: 2023Published: 20 Jul 2023
Falcon 9 launched 15 Starlink satellites from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 9:09 p.m.
Mission: 2023Published: 16 Jul 2023
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 carrying 54 Starlink V1.5 satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at 11:50 p.m.
Mission: 2023Published: 10 Jul 2023
Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:58 p.m.
Mission: 2023Published: 7 Jul 2023
On July 7, 2023 at 12:29 p.m. PT, a Falcon 9 launched 48 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Mission: 2023Published: 23 Jun 2023
On June 23, 2023 at 11:35 a.m. ET, a Falcon 9 launched 56 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral.
Mission: 2023Published: 20 Apr 2023
SpaceX's webcast covers the first integrated flight test of Starship and Super Heavy from Starbase, Texas, after an earlier attempt was stood down for a frozen booster valve.
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.
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.
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: 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: 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.
Mission: 1997Published: 16 Feb 2021
Servicing Mission 2 to the Hubble Space Telescope launched on Feb.
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.
Published: 21 Sep 2020
Skylab was a solely US space station that orbited Earth between 1973 and 1979.
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