The Best Rockets & the New Space Age Documentaries

Space & the Universe - 50 free documentaries about rockets & the new space age.

Start with How NASA Reinvented the Rocket Engine (18 min, Real Engineering), then Touring the Vulcan Rocket on the Launch Pad - Smarter Every Day 297 (37 min, Smarter Every Day). All 50 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on rockets & the new space age is Liftoff by Eric Berger.

• How NASA Reinvented the Rocket Engine (18 min, Real Engineering)
• Touring the Vulcan Rocket on the Launch Pad - Smarter Every Day 297 (37 min, Smarter Every Day)
• HOW ROCKETS ARE MADE (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - Smarter Every Day 231 (54 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Starship Reached Space. What Now? (18 min, Real Engineering)
• Can We Throw Satellites to Space? - SpinLaunch (42 min, Real Engineering)
• The Incredible Sounds of the Falcon Heavy Launch (BINAURAL AUDIO IMMERSION) - Smarter Every Day 189 (9 min, Smarter Every Day)
• The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets (20 min, Veritasium)
• How does the Crew Dragon Spacecraft work? (SpaceX) (19 min, Jared Owen)
• When Will Space Tourism be Affordable? (19 min, Wendover Productions)
• The Insane Engineering of the Space Shuttle (28 min, Real Engineering)
• SpaceX Astronaut Launch: Cape Canaveral, Florida | May 30th, 2020 (192 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• SpaceX Astronaut Launch Mission Attempt: Cape Canaveral, Florida (191 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• The Space Shuttle Program: How NASA Made Reusable Spacecraft (51 min, Spark)
• Von Braun Wheel: The Nazi Space Station You’ve Never Heard Of (52 min, Spark)
• Why We're Trying To Colonize Space (156 min, Spark)
• Why SpaceX is Using a New Fuel (17 min, Real Engineering)
• How does the Soyuz Spacecraft work? (14 min, Jared Owen)
• Artemis Program: Why We're Going Back To The Moon (52 min, Spark)
• Why Elon Musk Created Neuralink (feat. Real Science) (15 min, Real Engineering)
• Why SpaceX is Making Starlink (16 min, Real Engineering)
• Space Knowledge: The Launchers, Space Telescopes & Space Communication | Zenith (73 min, Free Documentary)
• Rocket Powered Golf Club at 100,000 FPS (15 min, Mark Rober)
• What Does The Future Of Space Travel Look Like? | The New Frontier (48 min, Spark)
• Rocket Ignition System On Steroids! (32 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Population COLLAPSE is Coming - Elon Musk, Dr. Shanna Swan & Jordan Peterson (12 min, After Skool)
• Launching an Ice Cannonball at 680 mph! | MythBusters (20 min, Discovery)
• Uncovering Hitler's Killer Rocket | Buried Secrets of WWII (44 min, National Geographic)
• Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? (15 min, Practical Engineering)
• How does the Soyuz Launch work? (and Reentry) (15 min, Jared Owen)
• Why SpaceX Built A Stainless Steel Starship (12 min, Real Engineering)
• Our Most Powerful Rocket EVER! Upsets Local Official! (17 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Preparing Our DIY Rockets For Testing! (20 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Will You Travel to Space? (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• Real Life Rocket Man Flies With Homemade Jetpack | Rocket Compulsion (49 min, Spark)
• The Man And Science Behind SpaceX (58 min, Spark)
• Fortitude: Forging the Trillion Dollar Space Industry | Colonizing Mars | Dream or Reality (89 min, Moconomy)
• Inside the space race | SpaceX, Rocket Lab & The Future of Space Exploration (37 min, Moconomy)
• Super Rockets: The Future Of Space Travel (48 min, Spark)
• Real Life Rocket Man Flies With Homemade Jetpack (50 min, Spark)
• How Four Veterans Launched The Global Air Industry | Pan Am: Crossing the Pacific (Part 2) (54 min, Wonder)
• Commandos Learn To Handle Military Rocket Launchers (42 min, Wonder)
• New Shepard Rocket: Space and Back in 10 minutes (17 min, Jared Owen)
• The Most Dangerous Hunt for Nazi V2 Rocket Launchers Revealed (95 min, Real Crime)
• Art We Launched Into Space (15 min, The Art Assignment)
• The Science of Jetpacks and Rockets! (9 min, Veritasium)
• The Powerful Rocket Boost Systems Taking Mankind To Deep Space (25 min, Spark)
• Rocket Igniters at 10,000fps! (10 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Starlink: Why Did SpaceX Send 12,000 Satellites Into Orbit? (24 min, Spark)
• Billionaires boldly go: private space-treks (29 min, The Economist)
• One giant, cheap for mankind: SpaceX’s Starship (25 min, The Economist)

Top-Rated Books About Rockets & the New Space Age

1. Liftoff by Eric Berger - View on Amazon
2. Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
3. The Space Barons by Christian Davenport - View on Amazon