Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Mission: 1970Published: 25 Dec 2020
Part one of a documentary on Apollo 13 covers the crew change, the launch, the pogo vibration on ascent and the oxygen tank rupture 56 hours into the flight.
Published: 18 Apr 2020
A documentary on how Skylab was damaged during its Saturn V launch, when a heat shield was torn away and one solar array was left stuck.
Mission: 1970Published: 11 Apr 2020
NASA's documentary on Apollo 13 draws on interviews with astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise and flight directors Gene Kranz and Glynn Lunney.
Mission: 1970Published: 2 Oct 2019
Apollo 13 launched April 11, 1970, and was meant to land at Fra Mauro.
Mission: 1969Published: 6 Jul 2019
An explainer on how NASA sent live television from the Moon during Apollo 11's first moonwalk, watched by 600 million people.
Mission: 1969Published: 23 Oct 2018
Apollo 11 launched on July 16, 1969, carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
Mission: 1970Published: 3 Mar 2018
This 1994 documentary follows Apollo 13 from its April 11, 1970 launch through the oxygen tank explosion on the way to the Moon.
Published: 12 Jul 2017
The History Guy recounts Skylab, America's first manned space station, built from the second stage of a Saturn V and launched on May 14, 1973.
Mission: 1970Published: 16 Mar 2012
Apollo 13 lifted off on April 11, 1970, but an oxygen tank explosion about 200,000 miles from Earth ended its Moon landing plans.
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