Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
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.
Mission: 2003Published: 31 Oct 2020
A NOVA documentary on the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke apart over Texas on re-entry in 2003 and killed all seven crew.
Published: 16 Apr 2020
A NASA Goddard documentary on the Hubble Space Telescope, from its shuttle launch and troubled deployment to the mirror flaw and the servicing missions that followed.
Mission: 1986Published: 19 Nov 2019
A long documentary on the January 1986 loss of Space Shuttle Challenger on mission 51-L.
Mission: 1986Published: 20 Jul 2019
Challenger STS-51L, carrying seven crew including teacher Christa McAuliffe, began to disintegrate 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986, killing all seven.
Published: 1 Aug 2018
This documentary traces how the Hubble Space Telescope was built after the Challenger loss, launched on the shuttle Discovery, and found to have a flawed mirror.
Published: 19 Sep 2016
A documentary tracing the technological leaps that made the International Space Station possible, from Salyut's thruster boosts and Skylab's aircraft communications to the Apollo-Soyuz docking and…
Mission: 2003Published: 21 Jul 2015
Archive footage from 7 July 2003 shows a foam block fired from a gun at a carbon-reinforced panel from shuttle Atlantis, leaving a hole.
Published: 14 May 2015
Frank Cepollina of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gives a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum lecture on the five Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions.
Mission: 1986Published: 2 Jun 2014
A Retro Report film from The New York Times on the Challenger disaster of Jan.
Published: 18 Jan 2009
A preview of Servicing Mission 4, the fifth and final shuttle visit to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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