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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.

3 mo on HN

Senate hearing on National Security Space Launch Programs with Elon Musk

canadarm2
4 HN recommender · 2014–2016
3 mo on HN

Starlink revisions, Nov 2018

Mark Handley
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HN

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

!!Con
4 HN recommender · 2024–2026
3 mo on HN

THE SAGAN SERIES - The Frontier Is Everywhere

Reid Gower
3 HN recommender · 2011–2016
3 mo on HN

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

Scott Manley
3 HN recommender · 2023–2025
3 mo on HN

The Halo Drive

Cool Worlds
3 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HN

THE MARS UNDERGROUND [HD] Full Movie

Blue Mars
3 HN recommender · 2014–2015
3 mo on HN

'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens

PBS Space Time
3 HN recommender · 2018–2021
3 mo on HN

Low Latency Routing in Space

HotNets Anonymous
4 HN recommender · 2018–2021
3 mo on HN

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

Strange Loop Conference
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HN

Orbital Data Centers Yes or No

Eager Space
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HN

The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope

Real Engineering
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HN

Why Starting A Rocket Engine Is So Hard!

Everyday Astronaut
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HN

How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster

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

Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)

Ace Records
3 HN recommender · 2018–2026
2 mo on HN

Pulling Clear Images Directly Off Satellites | GOES-15,16,17 and Himawari 8 HRIT

The Thought Emporium
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HN

Turning the Sun Into a Giant Telescope with Dr. Slava Turyshev

Fraser Cain
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HN

Using ground relays with Starlink

Mark Handley
5 HN recommender · 2020–2020
2 mo on HN

The Greatest Shot In Television

MoonEyes Plays
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HN

Public Service Broadcasting - Go!

PSBHQVEVO
2 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HN

SpaceX: The Biggest Money Loser in IPO History

Patrick Boyle
3 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HN

Can Spinlaunch Throw Rockets Into Space?

Scott Manley
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HN

How to Land the Space Shuttle... from Space

Bret
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HN

Toxic Propellant Hazards In Rocketry 1966 NASA

markdcatlin
2 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HN

Soyuz Launch Escape Tower System

Bruno Leal
1 HN recommend · 2011–2018
2 mo on HN

How We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away

Flight Software Workshop
2 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HN

Build an electroluminescent glass panel display -- an Apollo DSKY

Applied Science
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HN

Power Satellites & Space Based Solar Power

Isaac Arthur
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN

Apollo Core Rope Memory (Apollo Guidance Computer Part 30)

CuriousMarc
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HN

1.1 - Course outline

LaintalAy
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HN

Elon Musk - CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX | Entrepreneurship | Khan Academy

Khan Academy
2 HN recommender · 2013–2020
2 mo on HN

The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer - Brian Troutwine

Erlang Solutions
2 HN recommender · 2015–2019
2 mo on HN

URBEX | Abandoned Soviet Space Shuttles (Buran) in Baikonur

Exploring the Unbeaten Path
1 HN recommend · 2018–2022
2 mo on HN

Pinging The Voyager 2 Probe (PART 2)

EEVdiscover
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HN

DEBUNKING STARLINK

Common Sense Skeptic
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HN

First-stage landing | Onboard camera

SpaceX
2 HN recommender · 2016–2017