Space Exploration & Spaceflight Videos Hacker News Recommends

lecture#47

Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer

TNMoC

“The guy is really, really into it and it just makes the presentation amazing.”

11 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

explainer#133

The Solar Gravitational Lens will Map Exoplanets. Seriously.

Launch Pad Astronomy

“It's got some great graphics and visualisations, and is accessibly narrated.”

10 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#264

34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk

media.ccc.de

“This is the best description of AGC I have seen so far, from hardware design to mission software, layer by layer”

9 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#317

I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293

SmarterEveryDay

“one of the bravest talks I’ve seen in a while about the lessons of the Apollo program for Artemis”

9 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

interview#375

Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 1 // Summer 2021]

Everyday Astronaut

“Watch this walk around Starbase with Elon and Tim Dodd, and you'll get a pretty good sense that he has an engineering brain”

11 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

other#431

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

carlsagandotcom

“Puts everything in perspective, and makes everything feel insignificant”

5 HN recommenders · 2011–2026

documentary#444

Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon

CuriousMarc

“My new favorite YouTuber, CuriousMarc, has a whole series of videos about restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC).”

8 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

talk#496

Dr. Robert Zubrin with a brilliant answer to "Why Should We Go To Mars?"

Jamin Gray

“Robert Zubrin has what I consider a great, comprehensive answer to why we should go to Mars.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

explainer#528

The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!

PBS Space Time

“Pretty good explanation of the technique and challenges involved”

4 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

explainer#541

How Much Do Rockets Pollute? Are They Bad For Our Air?

Everyday Astronaut

“I highly recommend to everyone who is concerned about this.”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

explainer#559

Orbital Rings

Isaac Arthur

“we can build an orbital ring around Earth with today's technology, and it'd be much better than space elevators.”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

explainer#793

How Far Are The Nearest Stars?

Cody'sLab

“maybe watch this video that illustrates the distance only to the closest star, let alone any further away”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

documentary#816

HOW ROCKETS ARE MADE (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - Smarter Every Day 231

SmarterEveryDay

“If you haven't watched Smarter Every Day's ULA factory tour I highly recommend it.”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#837

GPUs to Mars: Full-Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine

insideHPC Report

“This talk was given at NVIDIA GTC 2015 and inspired me to go into manufacturing”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

documentary#896

7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

“If you have not watched the seven minutes of terror video produced by NASA, you absolutely must.”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

explainer#901

Is SpaceX's Raptor engine the king of rocket engines?

Everyday Astronaut

“A great place to start is this amazing video by The Everyday Astronaut”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

explainer#952

Turning Earth Into a Telescope | The Terrascope

Cool Worlds

“An excellent video on this”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

explainer#977

How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

“Out of every video Kurzgesagt has ever produced, my favorite is this one”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

explainer#984

End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

“Kurzgesagt actually has a great video on the topic of space debris for anyone interested”

5 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

explainer#1043

Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)

Veritasium

“a really excellent video that answers all your questions”

10 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#1061

Mike Mullane - Normalisation of deviance - IAFF - Part 1

Stuart Walker

“He describes how the Challenger shuttle disaster happened despite internal memos about the problem years prior.”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

explainer#1142

Colonizing Mars

Isaac Arthur

“Highly recommended video on Colonizing Mars by Isaac Arthur”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

explainer#1250

How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

“There is a decent kurzgesagt video explaining what transforming a new planet would look like”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

explainer#1268

The Moon's Orbit is WEIRD

minutephysics

“I can't explain better than minute physics, highly recommend”

4 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

music#1272

Space Oddity

Rare Earth

“It gives me chills every time I listen to it.”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

explainer#1365

Should We Colonize Venus Instead of Mars?

PBS Space Time

“Don't miss the PBS Space Time episode suggesting we should colonize Venus instead of Mars which gives some good arguments and goes through the basics.”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

explainer#1370

Why SpaceX is Making Starlink

Real Engineering

“the whole video is worth watching”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

explainer#1372

7 Minutes of Terror: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing | Video

VideoFromSpace

“Here's a video that blows my mind every time I watch it.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

explainer#1438

Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

“sobering run down of the realities when living on mars”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

demo#1482

Riding the Booster with enhanced sound

Michael Interbartolo

“I immediately had to re-watch this pretty awesome video after reading the article”

3 HN recommenders · 2014

explainer#1501

KSP Doesn't Teach: Rocket Engine Plumbing

Scott Manley

“Scott Manley has a fantastic video explaining all of this”

3 HN recommenders · 2019

explainer#1510

How to achieve nanometer precision in space?

Breaking Taps

“I highly recommend”

4 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

commentary#1558

Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1)

Evan Schurr

“I always recommend anyone wondering about whether or not space exploration is worth it to view the following amazing video compilations.”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

documentary#1573

A4 / V2 Rocket in detail: Turbopump

Astronomy and Nature TV

“this series of videos is definitely worth watching”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

explainer#1598

The Incredible Sounds of the Falcon Heavy Launch (BINAURAL AUDIO IMMERSION) - Smarter Every Day 189

SmarterEveryDay

“the sonic booms of the boosters coming into land are amazing, listen with headphones!”

5 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

news#1629

Senate hearing on National Security Space Launch Programs with Elon Musk

canadarm2

“I watched a senate hearing where Elon Musk squares off with the ULA. It's awesome.”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

explainer#1640

Starlink revisions, Nov 2018

Mark Handley

“this guy made an excellent youtube video modeling and visualizing the satellite orbits”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#1722

Saving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024

!!Con

“The talk is amazing and goes through the computer architecture of the spacecraft”

4 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

other#1798

THE SAGAN SERIES - The Frontier Is Everywhere

Reid Gower

“It gives me the motivation to work towards a goal which lies tens, hundreds, maybe a thousand years in the future.”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2016

explainer#1812

How GPS Works, And How It Got Better Than The Designers Ever Imagined

Scott Manley

“Scott Manley has a nice video covering the history of GPS and how it works, well worth a watch”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

explainer#1820

The Halo Drive

Cool Worlds

“Prof. Kipping is well known for his Cool Worlds youtube channel, which is fantastic.”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

documentary#1840

THE MARS UNDERGROUND [HD] Full Movie

Blue Mars

“I highly recommend this documentary”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2015

explainer#1856

'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens

PBS Space Time

“And I really recommend this PBS Space Time Video”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

demo#1955

Low Latency Routing in Space

HotNets Anonymous

“This video goes a bit into the probable topology of the links and gives a good look at how the eventual constellation would look.”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

talk#2000

"Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager" by Aaron Cummings

Strange Loop Conference

“this talk was really good”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

explainer#2014

Orbital Data Centers Yes or No

Eager Space

“Goes into great detail with extensive calculations (for a YT video at least).”

3 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

explainer#2155

The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope

Real Engineering

“For some context around what makes this deployment so remarkable, watch this[0] video”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

explainer#2165

Why Starting A Rocket Engine Is So Hard!

Everyday Astronaut

“Here's a 1hr video from the Everyday Astronaut explaining the process and everything that can go wrong.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2026