Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
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The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's On Air series looks at TIROS 1, the world's first weather satellite, launched in 1960.
Published 10 Sep 2026
Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Senior Airman Samuel Becker / Public domain
Live coverage of Blue Origin's second New Glenn launch, NG-2, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft toward Mars along with a Viasat…
Published 9 Nov 2025
Photo: NASA / Public domain
Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke gave this keynote at the 2nd Annual Astro Awards on January 26, 2025, recalling his career, the Saturn V launch, a control-system problem that nearly…
Published 29 Oct 2025
YES2 (Young Engineers Satellite 2) was a European Space Agency tether experiment carried on the Russian Foton-M3 spacecraft.
Published 30 Sep 2026
Livestream coverage of the countdown for NG-2, the second New Glenn flight, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral.
Published 13 Nov 2025
Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut hosts a watch-along of Rocket Lab's webcast for the Electron mission "Bridging the Swarm", which was to carry the NEONSAT-1A satellite for KAIST from Launch Complex 1…
Published 11 Dec 2025
Photo: European Space Agency / CC BY-SA 3.0 igo
ESA's documentary covers two years of the Smile mission, a 50–50 collaboration between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Photo: Mobilus In Mobili / CC BY-SA 2.0
SpaceX streamed the first static fire of Super Heavy Booster 9 from Starbase, Texas, about 3.5 months after the first integrated Starship flight test.
Published 6 Aug 2023
Photo: NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain
NASA's live coverage of US Spacewalk 98, in which NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot work to finish replacing a failed space-to-ground antenna (ESCAN) on the station's Z1 truss.
Published 25 Aug 2026
NASA's live coverage follows astronauts Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot as they prepare for and begin a spacewalk of about six and a half hours to replace a faulty Space-to-Ground antenna on the…
Published 18 Aug 2026
Photo: NASA/Crew-2 / Public domain
NASA's live coverage of U.S. Spacewalk 99, in which ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir worked outside the International Space Station.
Published 1 Sep 2026
NASA and Boeing leaders held a news conference at Kennedy Space Center on Starliner's return to flight.
Published 28 Sep 2026
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