PickVidsBest Space exploration & spaceflight Videos
The 164 Space exploration & spaceflight videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 5 introductory, 29 intermediate, 127 for a general viewer, and 3 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include SpaceX, Scott Manley, Everyday Astronaut.
The artificial gravity lab
Tom Scott tours the rotating room artificial gravity facility at Brandeis University's Graybiel lab.
The Nuclear Salt Water Rocket - Possibly the Craziest Rocket Engine Ever Imagined.
Scott Manley explains the nuclear salt water rocket, Robert Zubrin's concept of a rocket fueled by a rapid nuclear reaction in uranium salt dissolved in water.
NASA | Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary
NASA Goddard recreates the Apollo 8 Earthrise moment using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, narrated by Andrew Chaikin and synced with the astronauts' recorded conversation.
1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook
Kurzgesagt explains the skyhook, a rotating cable with a counterweight that could catapult spacecraft from Earth orbit toward deep space.
JWST just made the "Crisis in Cosmology" WORSE
Astrophysicist Dr.
Is Starlink A Secret Radar Constellation?
A 105-minute technical deep dive from Noise In Space evaluating whether Starlink satellites could work as synthetic aperture radar.
New Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin
A NASA and Durham University supercomputer simulation suggesting the Moon may have formed within hours of a giant impact between Earth and a Mars-sized body.
The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets
A Veritasium video touring Relativity Space and explaining why 3D printing whole rockets cuts tooling costs, allows rapid iteration, reduces part count and enables new designs.
Why Can't we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine?
Short Curious Droid video on why NASA could not simply rebuild the Saturn V's Rocketdyne F-1 engine for the SLS boosters.
Reusable Falcon 9 Launcher from Space-X!
A SpaceX concept animation showing the planned fully reusable Falcon 9, with both first and second stages performing vertical landings.
Dropping Things Into The Sun is Hard....
Scott Manley uses a realistically scaled Kerbal Space Program setup to show why dropping something into the Sun is far harder than it sounds.
To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM
A short film in which friends build the first true-to-scale model of the solar system, with full planetary orbits, on a Nevada dry lakebed.
SpaceX Pad Abort Test
A short SpaceX video of the Dragon 2 pad abort test, in which the capsule's thrusters fire to carry it away from the launch pad.
Vertical Landing Rockets Before SpaceX
Curious Droid surveys vertical take-off and landing rockets that predate SpaceX and Blue Origin, including the McDonnell Douglas DC-X of the 1990s.
SpaceX: BUSTED!! (Part 1)
Thunderf00t's critique of SpaceX's claims, arguing its launches are not actually cheaper than competitors or the Space Shuttle.
Mercury-Redstone 1 Launch failure (MR-1)
Footage of the failed Mercury-Redstone 1 launch, where the engine cut off almost immediately after liftoff.
Elon Musk almost crying
A two-minute clip of Elon Musk becoming emotional in an interview, reportedly about harsh criticism of SpaceX from astronauts.
William Shatner Tries To Describe The Awe of Space, Jeff Bezos Shoots Champagne Like An Asshole
A one-minute clip of William Shatner trying to describe the awe of space after a Blue Origin flight while Jeff Bezos sprays champagne.
Spinlaunch: BUSTED!
Thunderf00t critiques SpinLaunch, the startup that proposes flinging payloads to space with a giant centrifuge.
CRS-6 First Stage Landing
SpaceX's official footage of the CRS-6 Falcon 9 first stage landing attempt, in high resolution and slow motion.
Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #252
Lex Fridman's long conversation with Elon Musk covering SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot and self-driving, robotics and AI.
5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel
PBS Space Time surveys five realistic options for interstellar travel, from conventional rocket fuel to antimatter and nuclear pulse propulsion.
XRS-2200 Linear Aerospike Engine Test fire at NASA Stennis Space Center (SSC)
A short test firing of the XRS-2200 linear aerospike engine at NASA Stennis Space Center, which was designed for the cancelled X-33 VentureStar.
Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species
Elon Musk's 2016 IAC presentation on the technical challenges and architectures for building a self-sustaining human presence on Mars.