Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Mission: 1998Published: 7 May 2024
A DW documentary on the International Space Station, whose first module, Zarya, was launched on a Proton rocket on 20 November 1998.
Published: 5 May 2024
A history of Skylab, America's first space station, from the Apollo Applications Program origins and the switch from a wet to a dry workshop, through the damaged launch on May 14, 1973, the three…
Published: 11 Feb 2024
A National Geographic Superstructures episode that takes the International Space Station apart system by system.
Mission: 2003Published: 1 Feb 2024
ABC News' Feb. 1, 2003 broadcast reported that Space Shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry, killing all seven astronauts, about 16 minutes from home.
Mission: 1977Published: 23 Dec 2023
A documentary on the Voyager probes, launched from Cape Canaveral in 1977, following them past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and out to interstellar space.
Published: 22 Nov 2023
An animated explainer on how the International Space Station was assembled in its early stages using the Space Shuttle and the Canadarm robotic arm.
Mission: 2008Published: 11 Nov 2023
On September 28, 2008, Falcon 1 became the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth orbit.
Mission: 1986Published: 30 Sep 2023
Challenger lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on January 28, 1986 and broke apart 73 seconds into flight.
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.
Published: 25 Aug 2023
SpaceX's live stream of the second static fire of Super Heavy Booster 9 at Starbase, Texas.
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.
Published: 11 Aug 2023
An explainer on the engineering choices that let the Voyager probes keep working for about 45 years, including plutonium-238 power generators, backup thrusters, onboard computers and 8-track tape…
Mission: 2023Published: 11 Aug 2023
On August 11, 2023 at 1:17 a.m. ET, a Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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.
Published: 6 Aug 2023
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.
Mission: 2023Published: 29 Jul 2023
Falcon Heavy launched the Hughes JUPITER 3 (EchoStar 24) satellite on July 28 at 11:04 p.m.
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: 27 Jul 2023
SpaceX's webcast for the Falcon Heavy launch of the Hughes JUPITER 3 (EchoStar 24) satellite from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
Mission: 1986Published: 24 Jul 2023
A minute-by-minute account of Challenger mission STS-51-L, which launched on January 28, 1986 and broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew.
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.
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