Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every mission we cover, by year.
Published: 1 Nov 2026
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…
The video describes NASA's revised Artemis 3 plan, announced by Administrator Jared Isaacman on October 23: a crewed Earth-orbit rehearsal in summer 2027 rather than a Moon landing.
Published: 31 Oct 2026
NASA's reimagined Artemis III is described as a 14-day crewed Earth-orbit mission planned for summer 2027, in which an Orion crew of four docks with a Blue Origin Blue Moon Mark II prototype and a…
Published: 23 Oct 2026
NASA leaders at Kennedy Space Center updated progress on assembling the SLS for Artemis 3, a low Earth orbit docking-test mission planned for summer 2027, and on plans for an Artemis 4 crewed lunar…
Published: 7 Oct 2026
A roundup of space news from roughly the last two weeks before October 6th.
Published: 26 Aug 2026
Scott Manley explains how NASA recovered the Space Shuttle's two solid rocket boosters from the Atlantic after each flight.
Published: 16 May 2026
Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut examines whether Starship HLS is viable for Artemis.
Published: 11 Apr 2026
Live coverage of Artemis II's return: Orion Integrity separated from its service module, entered the atmosphere at about 25,000 mph and splashed down in the Pacific off San Diego at 7:07 p.m.
Published: 7 Apr 2026
Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut hosts a live watch of Artemis II's lunar approach, with commentary over NASA's broadcast.
Published: 2 Apr 2026
Everyday Astronaut's long live broadcast from the Kennedy Space Center press site covers the countdown to Artemis II, the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.
Published: 30 Mar 2026
A pre-launch guide to Artemis II, the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Published: 17 Nov 2024
A look at the history of solid rocket motors and the Aerojet AJ260, a 260-inch motor built in the 1960s as a possible backup to the F-1 engine on the Saturn V.
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: 20 Dec 2022
An explainer on why Artemis 1 took a 26-day route to the Moon, compared with six days for Apollo 8.
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