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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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2 mo on HNEEVblog 1547 (Part 1) - Contacting the Voyager 2 Space Probe
EEVblog
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNSpaceX reaches orbit with Falcon 1 - Flight 4 (full video including Elon Musk statement)
Spacevidcast
2 HN recommender · 2008–2017
2 mo on HNSpaceX IPO Scandal
Patrick Boyle
2 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HNIt's Quieter in the Twilight | Trailer | SF48
Boston SciFi
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HNArmadillo Aerospace - Mod free flight, engine restart, 4 views
Clark Lindsey
2 HN recommender · 2010–2014
2 mo on HNFalcon Heavy & Starman
SpaceX
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNSpaceX Seattle 2015
Cliff O
2 HN recommender · 2015–2024
2 mo on HNColonizing Venus
Isaac Arthur
2 HN recommender · 2017–2026
2 mo on HNWhy Everyone Is Talking About Data Centers In Space
Scott Manley
2 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HNApollo 11 Saturn V Launch Camera E-8
Mark Gray
2 HN recommender · 2016–2024
2 mo on HNSpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes | Gwynne Shotwell
TED
2 HN recommender · 2018–2025
2 mo on HNIs It Really Impossible To Cool A Datacenter In Space?
Scott Manley
2 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HNHow To Contact The Voyager 2 Probe (PART 1)
EEVdiscover
2 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNStarbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 2 // Summer 2021]
Everyday Astronaut
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HNThe Engines That Came In From The Cold - And how The NK-33/RD-180 Came To The USA
Matthew Travis
2 HN recommender · 2014–2021
2 mo on HNMoon Landings Faked? Filmmaker Says Not!
VideoFromSpace
2 HN recommender · 2017–2020
2 mo on HNHow To Visit STARBASE // A Complete Guide To Seeing Starship!
Everyday Astronaut
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNA conversation with Elon Musk about Starship
Everyday Astronaut
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HNDoes It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate?
Scott Manley
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HNDeparting Space Station Commander Provides Tour of Orbital Laboratory
NASA
2 HN recommender · 2013–2015
2 mo on HNNuclear Propulsion in Space
US National Archives
2 HN recommender · 2018–2020
2 mo on HNStarbase Live: 24/7 Starship & Super Heavy Development From SpaceX's Boca Chica Facility
NASASpaceflight
2 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HNCan The Human Body Handle Rotating Artificial Gravity?
Scott Manley
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HNHow does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?📡☄🖥
Branch Education
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HNWhat Is A Rotating Detonation Engine - And Why Are They Better Than Regular Engines
Scott Manley
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HNJonathan Diegelman - Modeling Spacecraft Separation Dynamics in Julia
The Julia Programming Language
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HNTRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HNThe Three Rocketeers-2012:BBC-Future of Space trav
FirstSecondThoughts
2 HN recommender · 2012–2015
2 mo on HNStarlink: BUSTED!! + ALL other Failed Musk promises!
Thunderf00t
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNTom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro
The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
1 HN recommend · 2014–2024
1 mo on HNHow to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk
PowerfulJRE
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
1 mo on HNvon Neumann probes, Dyson spheres, exploratory engineering and the Fermi paradox
Future of Humanity Institute
1 HN recommend · 2014–2026
1 mo on HNA way to explore Venus
NASA Langley Research Center
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HNThese are the asteroids to worry about
Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNCNN, Feynman and the Challenger disaster
vsrr83
1 HN recommend · 2016–2025