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  1. How the ISS Was Assembled: Modules, Gyros, Canadarm2 and Cooling

    Published: 6 Dec 2025

    This documentary-style explainer covers the early assembly of the International Space Station, from Zarya and Unity in 1998 through the 14 shuttle missions up to 2003.

  2. Columbia STS-107: From Foam Strike to Breakup on Re-entry

    Mission: 2003Published: 28 Nov 2025

    A documentary on the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia on 1 February 2003, which killed all seven astronauts on the return from the 16-day STS-107 science mission.

    View mission: Columbia STS-107 (2003)
    Launch site
    Cape Canaveral, Florida
    Outcome
    Failure
  3. New Glenn NG-2 Countdown: ESCAPADE Launch and Booster Landing Plan

    Published: 13 Nov 2025

    Livestream coverage of the countdown for NG-2, the second New Glenn flight, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral.

    View mission: ESCAPADE (New Glenn NG-2)
    Vehicle
    New Glenn
    Launch site
    Launch Complex 36, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
  4. New Glenn NG-2 Live: ESCAPADE to Mars and a Booster Landing Try

    Published: 9 Nov 2025

    Live coverage of Blue Origin's second New Glenn launch, NG-2, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft toward Mars along with a Viasat…

    View mission: New Glenn NG-2 ESCAPADE
    Vehicle
    New Glenn
    Launch site
    Launch Complex 36, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
  5. Challenger STS-51-L: Cold, O-Rings and the Rogers Commission

    Mission: 1986Published: 4 Nov 2025

    STS-51-L, the 25th Space Shuttle mission, lifted off on January 28, 1986 in record cold, and Challenger was destroyed 73 seconds later, killing all seven crew members.

    View mission: Challenger STS-51-L (1986)
    Launch site
    Kennedy Space Center, Launch Pad 39B
    Outcome
    Failure
  6. Starship HLS Update: 49 Milestones and a Simplified Artemis 3 Plan

    Published: 30 Oct 2025

    A live read-through of SpaceX's press release on its Starship Human Landing System for NASA's Artemis program, with new renders and hardware photos.

  7. How the Vandenberg Range Decides Launch Weather, Zones and Destruct

    Published: 30 Oct 2025

    A tour of the range at Vandenberg Space Force Base, produced with the U.S.

    Launch site
    Vandenberg Space Force Base
  8. Charlie Duke on Apollo 16: Launch, Landing Scare and Moonwalks

    Published: 29 Oct 2025

    Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke gave this keynote at the 2nd Annual Astro Awards on January 26, 2025, recalling his career, the Saturn V launch, a control-system problem that nearly…

    View mission: Apollo 16
    Outcome
    Success
  9. Tranche 1 Transport Layer C: Falcon 9 Lofts 21 Satellites

    Mission: 2025Published: 16 Oct 2025

    Everyday Astronaut hosts a live watch-along of SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch of 21 Lockheed Martin satellites for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 Transport Layer from Vandenberg, with the…

    View mission: Tranche 1 Transport Layer C (2025)
    Vehicle
    Falcon 9
    Launch site
    Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E), Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
  10. Starship Flight 11: Hot Staging, V3 Booster Landing Burn, SECO

    Published: 14 Oct 2025

    Launch coverage of SpaceX's 11th Starship flight test, flying Starship 38 and Super Heavy B15.2.

    View mission: Starship Flight 11
  11. NS-36: New Shepard Flies Six to Space and Lands Booster and Capsule

    Mission: 2025Published: 8 Oct 2025

    Blue Origin's New Shepard launched the NS-36 crew from Launch Site One in West Texas on Oct.

    View mission: New Shepard NS-36 (2025)
    Launch site
    Launch Site One, West Texas
    Outcome
    Success
  12. Starship Flight 10: Launch from Starbase and Objectives Met

    Mission: 2025Published: 29 Sep 2025

    SpaceX's Starship tenth flight test lifted off on August 26, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.

    View mission: Starship Flight 10 (2025)
    Vehicle
    Starship
    Launch site
    Starbase, Texas
    Outcome
    Success
  13. Challenger: How a Cold-Weather O-Ring Failure Led to the Disaster

    Mission: 1986Published: 27 Sep 2025

    Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after launch on January 28, 1986, and all seven astronauts died.

    View mission: Challenger STS-51-L (1986)
    Launch site
    Kennedy Space Center
    Outcome
    Failure
  14. Thomas Pesquet’s Mission Alpha: Six Months Aboard the ISS

    Mission: 2021Published: 6 Sep 2025

    A documentary following ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on his second trip to the International Space Station, Mission Alpha, which launched on April 23rd, 2021 aboard a Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon…

    View mission: Crew-2 (2021)
    Launch site
    Cape Canaveral, Florida
    Outcome
    Success
  15. Columbia STS-107: How a Foam Strike Led to the Shuttle’s Loss

    Mission: 2003Published: 8 Aug 2025

    A documentary on the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia on 1 February 2003, which killed all seven crew members on re-entry.

    View mission: Columbia STS-107 (2003)
    Launch site
    Cape Canaveral, Florida
    Outcome
    Failure
  16. ISS History: Assembly, Crises and the Plan to Deorbit by 2030

    Published: 12 Jul 2025

    A long-form history of the International Space Station, from early station proposals and Space Station Freedom through the Shuttle-era assembly, Expeditions, the Columbia pause, commercial cargo and…

    Outcome
    In progress
  17. Apollo 13: How the Crew Got Home in a Lunar Module Lifeboat

    Mission: 1970Published: 4 Jul 2025

    After an oxygen tank rupture, Apollo 13 became a rescue effort with the lunar module serving as a lifeboat.

    View mission: Apollo 13 (1970)
    Outcome
    Partial success
  18. Webb and Rubin Compared: Deep Fields Versus the Whole Southern Sky

    Published: 30 Jun 2025

    A comparison of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Vera Rubin Observatory, which released its first images the week the video was made.

    Vehicle
    James Webb Space Telescope
  19. How New Shepard Flies Six People to Space and Lands Itself

    Published: 13 Jun 2025

    An animated explainer of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket, covering its capsule and booster, training at Launch Site One in West Texas, and a flight that touches down just over 10 minutes…

    Launch site
    Launch Site One, West Texas
  20. Would a Voyager 3 Still Carry a Golden Record? Storage Compared

    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.

    View mission: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 (1977)
  21. Voyager 1 and 2: From the Grand Tour to Interstellar Space

    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…

    View mission: Voyager 1
    Vehicle
    Titan IIIE, Voyager 1, Voyager 2
  22. Mir Space Station: Why Its Design Made It a Success

    Published: 23 May 2025

    A design-focused look at the Mir space station, covering its modules, their origins in Salyut, TKS and Buran hardware, and Galina Balashova's interior design.

    Outcome
    Success
  23. Apollo 13: Oxygen Tank Rupture and the Lunar Module Lifeboat

    Mission: 1970Published: 10 May 2025

    Part one of a documentary on Apollo 13, launched in April 1970 with Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise.

    View mission: Apollo 13 (1970)
    Outcome
    Partial success
  24. Apollo Program Overview: From Apollo 7 to the Last Moon Mission

    Published: 6 May 2025

    A children's educational overview of NASA's Apollo program, which aimed to take humans to the Moon and bring them home safely.