Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Mission: 2021Published: 6 Sep 2025
A documentary following ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on his second trip to the International Space Station, Mission Alpha, which launched on April 23rd, 2021 aboard a Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon…
Published: 12 Jul 2025
A long-form history of the International Space Station, from early station proposals and Space Station Freedom through the Shuttle-era assembly, Expeditions, the Columbia pause, commercial cargo and…
Published: 26 Mar 2025
The B1M explains how the International Space Station was built from Zarya in 1998 onward and why it is planned to be brought down in 2030 by a specially modified SpaceX Dragon, ending in the ocean…
Published: 18 Jun 2024
Compares the 33 Raptor engines on SpaceX's Super Heavy booster with the five F1 engines of the Saturn V.
Published: 11 Feb 2024
A National Geographic Superstructures episode that takes the International Space Station apart system by system.
Mission: 2023Published: 3 Sep 2023
SpaceX and NASA broadcast the autonomous undocking of Crew Dragon Endeavour from the ISS on September 3, 2023, carrying the four Crew-6 astronauts home.
Mission: 2023Published: 2 Sep 2023
SpaceX launched the Space Development Agency's second Tranche 0 mission on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg on September 2, 2023, at 7:25 a.m.
Mission: 2023Published: 27 Aug 2023
SpaceX and NASA's live coverage follows Crew Dragon Endurance from its approach to the International Space Station through docking on Sunday, August 27, with Crew-7.
Mission: 2023Published: 26 Aug 2023
SpaceX and NASA's live coverage of the Crew-7 launch on a Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center on August 26, 2023, at 3:27 a.m.
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: 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: 2015Published: 12 Jan 2016
On December 21, 2015, SpaceX's Falcon 9 delivered 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit and landed the first stage of the rocket back on land.
Mission: 2015Published: 22 Dec 2015
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched 11 ORBCOMM second-generation satellites from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral on the ORBCOMM-2 mission.
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