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.
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.
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.
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,…
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.
Published: 7 Oct 2026
ESA's animated episode follows Hera and its CubeSats Juventas and Milani as they reach the double asteroid system Didymos and Dimorphos.
Mission: 1977Published: 31 Jul 2026
A documentary tracing the Voyager probes from their 1977 launches through flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune to their journey beyond the heliosphere.
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: 21 Mar 2026
A documentary on NASA's twin Voyager probes, from the 1970s planetary alignment and the 1977 launches through the encounters with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Mission: 1977Published: 31 May 2025
The video looks at the golden records on Voyagers 1 and 2, launched in 1977, and asks whether a hypothetical Voyager 3 would carry one today.
Published: 28 May 2025
A long documentary on the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, from the Grand Tour concept and spacecraft design to the golden record and the discoveries at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and the edge…
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: 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…
Published: 31 Jul 2018
New Horizons flew by Pluto in July 2015 and returned the first close images of its surface.
Published: 28 Jan 2018
NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in 2015 after a nine-year journey, passing about 12,500 kilometers from the surface on 14 July.
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