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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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1 mo on HNThe Fake Futurism of Elon Musk
Tom Nicholas
1 HN recommend · 2021–2022
1 mo on HNSpace Shades: Humanity's Last Hope | Answers With Joe
Joe Scott
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNJoe Rogan on Why he changed his stance on the Moon landing conspiracy
JRE Clips
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HNGrasshopper 744m Test | Single Camera (Hexacopter)
SpaceX
1 HN recommend · 2014–2021
1 mo on HNApollo Launch Abort System Test
oisiaa
1 HN recommend · 2015–2023
1 mo on HNElon Musk Explains SpaceX's Raptor Engine!
Everyday Astronaut
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HNWhat is it Like to Work for Elon Musk?
JRE Clips
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNElon Musk and Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose
1 HN recommend · 2012–2014
1 mo on HNHitting the Sun is HARD
minutephysics
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HNSpace Shuttle Thermal Tile Demonstration
Roscket Tasartir
1 HN recommend · 2014–2023
1 mo on HNI Landed A Rocket Like SpaceX - Scout F
BPS.space
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNThe Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away
Google TechTalks
1 HN recommend · 2012–2024
1 mo on HNThe artificial gravity lab
Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNThe Nuclear Salt Water Rocket - Possibly the Craziest Rocket Engine Ever Imagined.
Scott Manley
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNNASA | Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary
NASA Goddard
1 HN recommend · 2018–2024
1 mo on HN1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HNJWST just made the "Crisis in Cosmology" WORSE
Dr. Becky
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
1 mo on HNIs Starlink A Secret Radar Constellation?
Noise In Space
3 HN recommender · 2026–2026
1 mo on HNNew Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin
NASA's Ames Research Center
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
1 mo on HNThe Genius of 3D Printed Rockets
Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
1 mo on HNWhy Can't we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine?
Curious Droid
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022
1 mo on HNReusable Falcon 9 Launcher from Space-X!
Devon
1 HN recommend · 2012–2021
1 mo on HNDropping Things Into The Sun is Hard....
Scott Manley
1 HN recommend · 2016–2019
1 mo on HNTo Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM
To Scale:
1 HN recommend · 2015–2025
0 mo on HNSpaceX Pad Abort Test
SpaceX
0 HN recommender · 2015–2018
0 mo on HNVertical Landing Rockets Before SpaceX
Curious Droid
0 HN recommender · 2019–2022
0 mo on HNSpaceX: BUSTED!! (Part 1)
Thunderf00t
0 HN recommender · 2021–2022
0 mo on HNMercury-Redstone 1 Launch failure (MR-1)
vogonford
0 HN recommender · 2012–2017
0 mo on HNElon Musk almost crying
Timofey Pyshnov
0 HN recommender · 2016–2018
0 mo on HNWilliam Shatner Tries To Describe The Awe of Space, Jeff Bezos Shoots Champagne Like An Asshole
Ron Jones
0 HN recommender · 2022–2026
0 mo on HNSpinlaunch: BUSTED!
Thunderf00t
0 HN recommender · 2021–2023
0 mo on HNCRS-6 First Stage Landing
SpaceX
0 HN recommender · 2015–2017
0 mo on HNElon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #252
Lex Fridman
0 HN recommender · 2022–2022
0 mo on HN5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel
PBS Space Time
0 HN recommender · 2019–2020
0 mo on HNXRS-2200 Linear Aerospike Engine Test fire at NASA Stennis Space Center (SSC)
Barrel Roll
0 HN recommender · 2014–2025
0 mo on HNMaking Humans a Multiplanetary Species
SpaceX
0 HN recommender · 2020–2025