Space Exploration & Spaceflight Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 3
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#3721Joe 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#3725von 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#3749A 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#3819These 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#3821CNN, 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#3828The 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#3853Space 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#3867Joe 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#3889Grasshopper 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#3920Apollo Launch Abort System Test
oisiaa
“the rocket accidentally broke apart but the escape tower system then performed perfectly”
1 HN recommenders · 2015–2023
interview#3982Elon 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#4015What 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#4085Elon 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#4093Hitting 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#4163Space 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#4202I 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#4334The 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#4367The artificial gravity lab
Tom Scott
“I never really got it until I watched the Tom Scott video”
1 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
explainer#4402The 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#4408NASA | 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#44161,000km 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#4495JWST just made the "Crisis in Cosmology" WORSE
Dr. Becky
“she introduces laymen to the problems well”
2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
demo#4545New 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#4553The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets
Veritasium
“Veritasium did a video on their rocket”
1 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
explainer#4619Why 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#4674Reusable 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#4704Dropping 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#4787To 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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