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Space exploration & spaceflight Videos Recommended on Hacker News (164)
Space exploration & spaceflight is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 164 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 376 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Space exploration: NASA, SpaceX, Starship, rockets, Apollo, Mars missions, JWST, space stations, satellites, orbital mechanics, Carl Sagan, Kerbal-style explainers, space policy.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer: “The guy is really, really into it and it just makes the presentation amazing.” — an HN commenter, 2022.
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11 mo on HNLight Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
TNMoC
11 HN recommender · 2021–2026
9 mo on HNThe Solar Gravitational Lens will Map Exoplanets. Seriously.
Launch Pad Astronomy
10 HN recommender · 2020–2025
7 mo on HN34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
media.ccc.de
9 HN recommender · 2018–2025
6 mo on HNFalcon Heavy Test Flight
SpaceX
4 HN recommender · 2018–2026
7 mo on HNI Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293
SmarterEveryDay
9 HN recommender · 2023–2025
8 mo on HNStarbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 1 // Summer 2021]
Everyday Astronaut
11 HN recommender · 2021–2024
5 mo on HNCarl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot
carlsagandotcom
5 HN recommender · 2011–2026
6 mo on HNApollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon
CuriousMarc
8 HN recommender · 2019–2024
5 mo on HNDr. Robert Zubrin with a brilliant answer to "Why Should We Go To Mars?"
Jamin Gray
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
6 mo on HNThe REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!
PBS Space Time
4 HN recommender · 2023–2024
6 mo on HNHow Much Do Rockets Pollute? Are They Bad For Our Air?
Everyday Astronaut
6 HN recommender · 2020–2023
6 mo on HNOrbital Rings
Isaac Arthur
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HNHow Far Are The Nearest Stars?
Cody'sLab
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
5 mo on HNHOW ROCKETS ARE MADE (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - Smarter Every Day 231
SmarterEveryDay
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNGPUs to Mars: Full-Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine
insideHPC Report
5 HN recommender · 2015–2024
4 mo on HN7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
5 HN recommender · 2016–2021
4 mo on HNIs SpaceX's Raptor engine the king of rocket engines?
Everyday Astronaut
4 HN recommender · 2019–2022
5 mo on HNTurning Earth Into a Telescope | The Terrascope
Cool Worlds
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HNHow to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNEnd of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
5 HN recommender · 2018–2026
4 mo on HNMars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)
Veritasium
10 HN recommender · 2020–2021
4 mo on HNMike Mullane - Normalisation of deviance - IAFF - Part 1
Stuart Walker
4 HN recommender · 2018–2022
4 mo on HNColonizing Mars
Isaac Arthur
4 HN recommender · 2017–2022
4 mo on HNHow To Terraform Venus (Quickly)
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HNThe Moon's Orbit is WEIRD
minutephysics
4 HN recommender · 2024–2026
3 mo on HNSpace Oddity
Rare Earth
3 HN recommender · 2013–2025
4 mo on HNShould We Colonize Venus Instead of Mars?
PBS Space Time
4 HN recommender · 2016–2022
4 mo on HNWhy SpaceX is Making Starlink
Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2019–2020
3 mo on HN7 Minutes of Terror: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing | Video
VideoFromSpace
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
4 mo on HNBuilding a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HNRiding the Booster with enhanced sound
Michael Interbartolo
3 HN recommender · 2014–2014
3 mo on HNKSP Doesn't Teach: Rocket Engine Plumbing
Scott Manley
3 HN recommender · 2019–2019
3 mo on HNHow to achieve nanometer precision in space?
Breaking Taps
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNNeil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1)
Evan Schurr
3 HN recommender · 2012–2025
3 mo on HNA4 / V2 Rocket in detail: Turbopump
Astronomy and Nature TV
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNThe Incredible Sounds of the Falcon Heavy Launch (BINAURAL AUDIO IMMERSION) - Smarter Every Day 189
SmarterEveryDay
5 HN recommender · 2018–2022