Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Published: 2 Nov 2026
Voyager 1 launched on September 5th, 1977 for a grand tour of the giant planets, flying past Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980.
Mission: 1986Published: 2 Nov 2026
Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after launching from Kennedy Space Center on January 28, 1986, killing all seven crew.
A souvenir box of thirteen NASA photograph cards, labelled "Columbia Space Shuttle", is used to tell the story of the shuttle era.
Voyager 1 launched on September 5, 1977, after its twin Voyager 2, and flew past Jupiter and Saturn before heading out of the solar system.
Space Shuttle Challenger, on mission 51-L, lifted off at 11:38 a.m. on January 28, 1986 and broke apart 73 seconds later, killing all seven crew.
Mission: 1970Published: 2 Nov 2026
Apollo 13 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, meant to be the third Moon landing at Fra Mauro.
Published: 1 Nov 2026
Voyager 1, launched on September 5, 1977, is about to reach one light-day from Earth, expected at 2:16 a.m.
Mission: 1970Published: 1 Nov 2026
Apollo 13 was meant to be the third Moon landing, but an oxygen tank exploded about 55 hours 54 minutes into the mission, and the crew used the lunar module Aquarius as a lifeboat.
Mission: 1986Published: 1 Nov 2026
On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff on mission 51-L, and all seven crew members died.
A documented walk through the Rogers Commission findings on the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986.
Apollo 13 launched on April 11, 1970, meant to be the third crewed Moon landing.
Voyager 1, launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, is still operating in interstellar space and on November 18, 2026 is due to become the first human-made object to reach one light-day from Earth,…
Apollo 13 was meant to be the third Moon landing, targeting the Fra Mauro region, but an oxygen tank burst about 55 hours into the flight, around 200,000 miles from Earth.
A documentary on the Challenger accident of January 28, 1986, when the shuttle disintegrated 73 seconds into flight with the loss of all seven astronauts.
An explainer on why Starship's heat shield uses hexagonal tiles and why full reuse depends on how much work the shield needs between flights.
On February 14, 1990, after 12 years of travel, Voyager 1 was commanded to turn its cameras back toward the inner solar system at Carl Sagan's request.
An explainer on how the sky crane landing put NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in 2012.
Apollo 13 lifted off on April 11, 1970 for the lunar highlands of Fra Mauro, but an oxygen tank in the service module ruptured roughly 320,000 km from Earth.
A documentary on the Challenger mission 51-L, which lifted off at 11:38 on 28 January 1986 and broke apart 73 seconds later.
Mission: 2026Published: 1 Nov 2026
A full engineering breakdown of Starship V3, covering methane propellant, stainless steel, heat shield tiles and Raptor engines.
After Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986, its recovered pieces were stored in two former Minuteman missile silos at Cape Canaveral, sealed in 1987 with 10-ton…
An explainer on why Starship's Super Heavy booster has 33 Raptor engines, giving four reasons: redundancy, avoiding the combustion instability that troubled huge engines like the F-1, the throttle…
Curiosity was built for a mission of about two years and has been on Mars for fourteen.
Built from the Rogers Commission report and sworn hearing testimony, this film follows the roughly 21 hours from the cold forecast reaching Morton Thiokol on Monday 27 January 1986 to 73 seconds…
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