Liftoff Videos
Every mission, with the videos that tell it
Every launch, documentary and explainer in the library, with the mission it belongs to.
Mission: 1969Published: 23 Oct 2018
Apollo 11 launched on July 16, 1969, carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
Published: 1 Aug 2018
This documentary traces how the Hubble Space Telescope was built after the Challenger loss, launched on the shuttle Discovery, and found to have a flawed mirror.
Published: 31 Jul 2018
New Horizons flew by Pluto in July 2015 and returned the first close images of its surface.
Published: 11 Mar 2018
SpaceX's short video describes Falcon Heavy as the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two, able to lift nearly 64 metric tons to orbit.
Mission: 1970Published: 3 Mar 2018
This 1994 documentary follows Apollo 13 from its April 11, 1970 launch through the oxygen tank explosion on the way to the Moon.
Published: 6 Feb 2018
Coverage of the Falcon Heavy test flight, including the countdown, liftoff, booster separation and the landing attempts of the two side boosters and the center core.
Mission: 2018Published: 6 Feb 2018
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Demonstration Mission launched from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 6 February 2018 at 20:45 UTC.
SpaceX's official webcast covers the first test flight of Falcon Heavy from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
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.
Published: 25 Sep 2017
A NASA documentary on Skylab, which launched on May 14, 1973.
Published: 15 Sep 2017
On Sept. 15, 2017, Cassini plunged into Saturn, ending a 20-year mission.
Published: 13 Sep 2017
A New York Times short film on the end of NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which was to dive into Saturn on September 15, 2017.
Published: 12 Jul 2017
The History Guy recounts Skylab, America's first manned space station, built from the second stage of a Saturn V and launched on May 14, 1973.
Published: 4 Apr 2017
NASA JPL's animated video describes Cassini's Grand Finale, in which the spacecraft, running out of fuel after 20 years in space, makes 22 dives between Saturn and its rings before plunging into the…
Mission: 2021Published: 24 Jan 2017
An animation from Northrop Grumman depicts the planned launch of the James Webb Space Telescope on an Ariane 5 and its deployment on the way to Sun-Earth L2, 1 million miles from Earth.
Published: 19 Sep 2016
A documentary tracing the technological leaps that made the International Space Station possible, from Salyut's thruster boosts and Skylab's aircraft communications to the Apollo-Soyuz docking and…
Published: 31 Mar 2016
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams leads a room-by-room tour of the International Space Station, showing the sleep stations in Node 2, the bathroom, the galley, the exercise equipment, the spacesuits…
Mission: 2015Published: 12 Jan 2016
On December 21, 2015, SpaceX's Falcon 9 delivered 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit and landed the first stage of the rocket back on land.
Mission: 2015Published: 22 Dec 2015
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched 11 ORBCOMM second-generation satellites from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral on the ORBCOMM-2 mission.
Mission: 2003Published: 21 Jul 2015
Archive footage from 7 July 2003 shows a foam block fired from a gun at a carbon-reinforced panel from shuttle Atlantis, leaving a hole.
Published: 14 May 2015
Frank Cepollina of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gives a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum lecture on the five Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions.
Mission: 1986Published: 2 Jun 2014
A Retro Report film from The New York Times on the Challenger disaster of Jan.
Published: 6 Aug 2012
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shares footage of mission control as Curiosity landed on Mars on the evening of Aug.
NASA's Curiosity rover, carried by the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, landed on Mars after a 36-week flight.
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