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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.

11 mo on HN

Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer

TNMoC
11 HN recommender · 2021–2026
9 mo on HN

The Solar Gravitational Lens will Map Exoplanets. Seriously.

Launch Pad Astronomy
10 HN recommender · 2020–2025
7 mo on HN

34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk

media.ccc.de
9 HN recommender · 2018–2025
6 mo on HN

Falcon Heavy Test Flight

SpaceX
4 HN recommender · 2018–2026
7 mo on HN

I 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 HN

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

Everyday Astronaut
11 HN recommender · 2021–2024
5 mo on HN

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

carlsagandotcom
5 HN recommender · 2011–2026
6 mo on HN

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

CuriousMarc
8 HN recommender · 2019–2024
5 mo on HN

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

Jamin Gray
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
6 mo on HN

The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!

PBS Space Time
4 HN recommender · 2023–2024
6 mo on HN

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

Everyday Astronaut
6 HN recommender · 2020–2023
6 mo on HN

Orbital Rings

Isaac Arthur
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HN

How Far Are The Nearest Stars?

Cody'sLab
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
5 mo on HN

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

SmarterEveryDay
5 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HN

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

insideHPC Report
5 HN recommender · 2015–2024
4 mo on HN

7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
5 HN recommender · 2016–2021
4 mo on HN

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

Everyday Astronaut
4 HN recommender · 2019–2022
5 mo on HN

Turning Earth Into a Telescope | The Terrascope

Cool Worlds
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
4 mo on HN

How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HN

End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
5 HN recommender · 2018–2026
4 mo on HN

Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)

Veritasium
10 HN recommender · 2020–2021
4 mo on HN

Mike Mullane - Normalisation of deviance - IAFF - Part 1

Stuart Walker
4 HN recommender · 2018–2022
4 mo on HN

Colonizing Mars

Isaac Arthur
4 HN recommender · 2017–2022
4 mo on HN

How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HN

The Moon's Orbit is WEIRD

minutephysics
4 HN recommender · 2024–2026
3 mo on HN

Space Oddity

Rare Earth
3 HN recommender · 2013–2025
4 mo on HN

Should We Colonize Venus Instead of Mars?

PBS Space Time
4 HN recommender · 2016–2022
4 mo on HN

Why SpaceX is Making Starlink

Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2019–2020
3 mo on HN

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

VideoFromSpace
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
4 mo on HN

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

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HN

Riding the Booster with enhanced sound

Michael Interbartolo
3 HN recommender · 2014–2014
3 mo on HN

KSP Doesn't Teach: Rocket Engine Plumbing

Scott Manley
3 HN recommender · 2019–2019
3 mo on HN

How to achieve nanometer precision in space?

Breaking Taps
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HN

Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1)

Evan Schurr
3 HN recommender · 2012–2025
3 mo on HN

A4 / V2 Rocket in detail: Turbopump

Astronomy and Nature TV
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HN

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

SmarterEveryDay
5 HN recommender · 2018–2022