Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
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: 1 Jul 2023
SpaceX launched ESA's Euclid space telescope on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida at 11:12 a.m.
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: 27 May 2023
SpaceX's video covers the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship (S24) and Super Heavy (B7) from Starbase in Texas.
Published: 22 May 2023
A children's science episode explains why rovers are sent to Mars instead of people.
Mission: 1969Published: 3 May 2023
This documentary traces the road to Apollo 11, from Sputnik and Kennedy's 1961 goal through Mercury, Gemini and the early Apollo flights.
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.
Published: 6 Feb 2023
Replay of the first Falcon Heavy launch on Feb.
Published: 20 Dec 2022
An explainer on why Artemis 1 took a 26-day route to the Moon, compared with six days for Apollo 8.
Published: 10 Dec 2022
An explainer on daily life aboard China's Tiangong space station after the Mengtian module docked and Shenzhou 15 arrived for the first in-orbit crew handover, with six taikonauts aboard.
Published: 29 Nov 2022
CGTN's Wu Lei gives a tour of China's Tiangong space station, ahead of the Shenzhou-15 crew's flight.
Mission: 1970Published: 13 Nov 2022
An hour-by-hour account of Apollo 13, from launch on a Saturn V to the oxygen tank 2 explosion at about hour 56.
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: 4 Feb 2022
Onboard footage from inside the capsule of Blue Origin's NS-19 flight, which took flight on December 11, 2021.
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: 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.
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