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Space exploration & spaceflight videos on HackerTube: the talks, lectures and explainers Hacker News commenters keep sharing, covering NASA, SpaceX, Starship, rockets, Apollo, Mars missions, JWST, space stations, satellites, orbital mechanics, Carl Sagan, Kerbal-style explainers, space policy.

124 videos · ranked by HN recommendations · showing 97–124

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podcast#3721

Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk

PowerfulJRE

“Highly recommend listening to the entire 2.5 hour Joe Rogan podcast[1]. It really does give a nice glimpse into his mind”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

talk#3725

von Neumann probes, Dyson spheres, exploratory engineering and the Fermi paradox

Future of Humanity Institute

“I highly recommend this video”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

demo#3749

A way to explore Venus

NASA Langley Research Center

“There's this real cool concept about a manned blimp that was produced by NASA a few years ago.”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

explainer#3819

These are the asteroids to worry about

Veritasium

“Veritasium video with Dave Jewitt of UCLA explains a lot about what were doing about asteroids.”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

interview#3821

CNN, Feynman and the Challenger disaster

vsrr83

“Richard Feynman served on the Challenger commission and very nicely summarizes the difference between Apollo and Space Shuttle.”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

commentary#3828

The Fake Futurism of Elon Musk

Tom Nicholas

“There was an interesting critique of Musks futurism by Tom Nicholas. It definitely gave me another perspective.”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

explainer#3853

Space Shades: Humanity's Last Hope | Answers With Joe

Joe Scott

“Here's a video of someone going through the maths and their various assumptions”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

podcast#3867

Joe Rogan on Why he changed his stance on the Moon landing conspiracy

JRE Clips

“I really liked Joe Rogan's video on this topic”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

demo#3889

Grasshopper 744m Test | Single Camera (Hexacopter)

SpaceX

“the spacex grasshopper test was the first that I saw that had the rocket do a vertical takeoff, and then land.”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

demo#3920

Apollo Launch Abort System Test

oisiaa

“the rocket accidentally broke apart but the escape tower system then performed perfectly”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

interview#3982

Elon Musk Explains SpaceX's Raptor Engine!

Everyday Astronaut

“Here's a video of Elon explaining the Raptor engine design”

1 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

interview#4015

What is it Like to Work for Elon Musk?

JRE Clips

“Watch this interview with a former Astronaut who worked with SpaceX for Crew Dragon.”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

interview#4085

Elon Musk and Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose

“Elon Musk has a cute and short explanation of "reasoning from first principle" vs. "reasoning by analogy”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2014

explainer#4093

Hitting the Sun is HARD

minutephysics

“as explained in the following minutephysics video (3 minutes): Hitting the Sun is HARD.”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

demo#4163

Space Shuttle Thermal Tile Demonstration

Roscket Tasartir

“have a look at this video demonstrating insulating tiles as used on the space shuttle”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

demo#4202

I Landed A Rocket Like SpaceX - Scout F

BPS.space

“Would recommend, it’s been very cool to follow his progress over the years.”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#4334

The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away

Google TechTalks

“Ron Garret talks about DS1, a project in the 90s where a small team used Lisp”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2024

explainer#4367

The artificial gravity lab

Tom Scott

“I never really got it until I watched the Tom Scott video”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

explainer#4402

The Nuclear Salt Water Rocket - Possibly the Craziest Rocket Engine Ever Imagined.

Scott Manley

“Scott Manley does a great video talking about nuclear rocket engines[2]”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

documentary#4408

NASA | Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary

NASA Goddard

“Wikipedia links to a nice visualization on youtube of the moments when the photo was taken”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

explainer#4416

1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

“I recently saw a very interesting video on a concept called a”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

explainer#4495

JWST just made the "Crisis in Cosmology" WORSE

Dr. Becky

“she introduces laymen to the problems well”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

demo#4545

New Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin

NASA's Ames Research Center

“the simulation released last year of the hypothesized Earth-Theia moon formation is really cool”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

explainer#4553

The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets

Veritasium

“Veritasium did a video on their rocket”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

explainer#4619

Why Can't we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine?

Curious Droid

“TLDR: everything was handcrafted, notes were not made or lost”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

demo#4674

Reusable Falcon 9 Launcher from Space-X!

Devon

“here is SpaceX's fantastic animation of their ultimate goal for Falcon 9”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2021

demo#4704

Dropping Things Into The Sun is Hard....

Scott Manley

“Or watch Scott Manley demonstrate the unreasonable orbital dynamics you just described.”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

documentary#4787

To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM

To Scale:

“a mini-documentary where people attempt to build a true-to-scale model of the Solar System”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

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