Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every launch, documentary and explainer in the library, with the mission it belongs to.
Published: 23 Jun 2021
A documentary-style account of the Mir space station, from its 1986 core module launch to the troubled year 1997.
Mission: 1971Published: 18 May 2021
Scott Manley marks 50 years since Salyut 1, the first space station, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971.
Published: 11 May 2021
Servicing Mission 4 was the fifth and final servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Published: 24 Apr 2021
Space Shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble telescope on 24 April 1990, but its 2.5 meter main mirror had a small flaw that made images blurry.
Published: 1 Mar 2021
NASA's Servicing Mission 3B, flown on space shuttle Columbia as STS-109, was the fourth visit to the Hubble Space Telescope and lasted 12 days with five spacewalks.
Published: 23 Feb 2021
BBC News reports on NASA's release of video of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars, recorded by seven dedicated cameras.
NASA released first-of-its-kind footage of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars, showing the final minutes of the descent up to touchdown.
Published: 22 Feb 2021
NASA's official video combines real footage from the rover's entry, descent and landing cameras with mission control call-outs from Perseverance's landing in Jezero Crater on Feb.
Mission: 1997Published: 16 Feb 2021
Servicing Mission 2 to the Hubble Space Telescope launched on Feb.
Published: 15 Feb 2021
Engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober tours NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ahead of the Perseverance landing on Mars, explaining the why, where, how, what and who of the mission.
Mission: 1970Published: 1 Jan 2021
After an oxygen tank rupture crippled Apollo 13, NASA and the crew used the lunar module as a lifeboat.
Mission: 1970Published: 25 Dec 2020
Part one of a documentary on Apollo 13 covers the crew change, the launch, the pogo vibration on ascent and the oxygen tank rupture 56 hours into the flight.
Published: 22 Dec 2020
NASA/JPL animations show key events in entry, descent and landing for the Perseverance rover, due to land on Mars on February 18, 2021.
Mission: 1993Published: 2 Dec 2020
Servicing Mission 1 launched on December 2, 1993, aboard the space shuttle Endeavour to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, whose primary mirror had been ground too flat.
Mission: 2003Published: 31 Oct 2020
A NOVA documentary on the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke apart over Texas on re-entry in 2003 and killed all seven crew.
Published: 21 Sep 2020
Skylab was a solely US space station that orbited Earth between 1973 and 1979.
Published: 30 May 2020
ABC television and radio coverage from July 1979 follows Skylab's return to Earth.
Published: 18 Apr 2020
A documentary on how Skylab was damaged during its Saturn V launch, when a heat shield was torn away and one solar array was left stuck.
Published: 16 Apr 2020
A NASA Goddard documentary on the Hubble Space Telescope, from its shuttle launch and troubled deployment to the mirror flaw and the servicing missions that followed.
Mission: 1970Published: 11 Apr 2020
NASA's documentary on Apollo 13 draws on interviews with astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise and flight directors Gene Kranz and Glynn Lunney.
Mission: 1986Published: 19 Nov 2019
A long documentary on the January 1986 loss of Space Shuttle Challenger on mission 51-L.
Mission: 1970Published: 2 Oct 2019
Apollo 13 launched April 11, 1970, and was meant to land at Fra Mauro.
Mission: 1986Published: 20 Jul 2019
Challenger STS-51L, carrying seven crew including teacher Christa McAuliffe, began to disintegrate 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986, killing all seven.
Mission: 1969Published: 6 Jul 2019
An explainer on how NASA sent live television from the Moon during Apollo 11's first moonwalk, watched by 600 million people.
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