Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Published: 1 Nov 2026
The video describes NASA's revised Artemis 3 plan, announced by Administrator Jared Isaacman on October 23: a crewed Earth-orbit rehearsal in summer 2027 rather than a Moon landing.
A walk through the six rovers that have driven on Mars: Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, Perseverance and Zhurong.
Mission: 1970Published: 1 Nov 2026
Apollo 13 lifted off on April 11, 1970, and 55 hours and 53 minutes into the flight an oxygen tank exploded after Houston asked the crew to stir the tanks.
Mission: 1986Published: 1 Nov 2026
A documentary on the Challenger launch decision of 28 January 1986, which ended with the breakup of the vehicle 73 seconds after liftoff and the deaths of all seven on board.
Mission: 2026Published: 1 Nov 2026
Starship Flight 14 lifted off from Starbase on September 28, 2026, reached orbit for the first time and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, all of which made contact.
Mission: 2024Published: 1 Nov 2026
This explainer covers how SpaceX catches its Super Heavy booster with the launch tower's two arms instead of landing it on legs.
Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986, killing all seven astronauts on board.
A retelling of Starship's build-fly-fail-fix test campaign, from the Starhopper hop and the SN prototypes through flights 1 to 14.
Mission: 2003Published: 1 Nov 2026
Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas on 1 February 2003 and all seven astronauts were killed.
Published: 31 Oct 2026
NASA's reimagined Artemis III is described as a 14-day crewed Earth-orbit mission planned for summer 2027, in which an Orion crew of four docks with a Blue Origin Blue Moon Mark II prototype and a…
Scott Manley tells the stories of four satellites that went silent and later transmitted again: LES-1, AMSAT-OSCAR 7, IMAGE and BeeSat 1.
Published: 29 Oct 2026
NASA's coverage follows Anil Menon and CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk through US Spacewalk 100, the 285th ISS spacewalk for assembly, maintenance and upgrades.
Published: 23 Oct 2026
NASA leaders at Kennedy Space Center updated progress on assembling the SLS for Artemis 3, a low Earth orbit docking-test mission planned for summer 2027, and on plans for an Artemis 4 crewed lunar…
A roundup of space news from early to late October, covering launches from Korea, China, the US and Japan, including Japan's H3 launch of the Martian Moons Explorer.
Rocket Lab launched its 98th Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on the mission 'We're Not Hawking Around', its third dedicated launch for HawkEye 360.
Published: 22 Oct 2026
Rocket Lab CEO Sir Peter Beck explains why Neutron's first flight has moved into 2027.
Published: 20 Oct 2026
NASA officials preview US spacewalks 100 and 101, planned for Oct.
NASA's October 2026 Moon Base update covers the robotic and crewed rovers planned for the lunar South Pole.
Mission: 2026Published: 20 Oct 2026
NASASpaceflight's live webcast of the Falcon 9 launch of Bandwagon-5, SpaceX's 23rd Smallsat Rideshare mission, from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral.
Published: 18 Oct 2026
A live conversation with two Goddard team members about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which launched on a Falcon Heavy on August 30 and is traveling to Sun-Earth L2.
Published: 17 Oct 2026
Blue Origin is rebuilding Launch Complex 36A after a May 28 pad explosion during a New Glenn static fire test, aiming to fly again by the end of 2026.
Published: 15 Oct 2026
NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 held a postflight news conference at Johnson Space Center after returning to Earth on Oct.
ESA's documentary traces Galileo and EGNOS from the 1990s, when Europe sought independence from GPS, through the GIOVE-A and GIOVE-B test satellites and the first operational launches.
Mission: 2026Published: 15 Oct 2026
NASA's live coverage follows the uncrewed SpaceX cargo Dragon of the 35th commercial resupply mission as it approached and docked to the International Space Station's Harmony zenith port.
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