Jessica Watkins' Crew-13 launch replay carries half of VideoFromSpace's day
The full NASA broadcast from Cape Canaveral drew a quarter of a million views, and a docking clip followed with a time NASA's description calls a US record.
VideoFromSpaceStory of Why this story? The video is running at 260,921 views a day, 0 times its usual pace (0).
Replay! SpaceX launches Crew-13 to the International Space Station
"Replay! SpaceX launches Crew-13 to the International Space Station" is the long version: NASA's whole broadcast of the October 1 liftoff from Cape Canaveral, reposted on VideoFromSpace, Space.com's video channel. The listing went up two days before the launch. Almost all of its quarter of a million views then arrived in a single day, and that one replay accounted for about half of everything the channel drew.
The four people on top of the Falcon 9 are led by Jessica Watkins, who first lived aboard the station on Crew-4 in 2022. Luke Delaney, from NASA's 2021 astronaut class, is the pilot. Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency, a former Royal Canadian Air Force test pilot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov fly as mission specialists.
The channel stayed with the crew all the way up. A shorter "Blastoff!" cut of the same launch also found a large audience. The docking video came next, built around a time its description calls a new US record: Dragon reached the station 7 hours and 55 minutes after liftoff. The description also notes that the overall record still belongs to Russia's Soyuz MS-17, which made the trip in about three hours in 2020.
The comment section is small but specific. One viewer counts watching launches live as a perk of working from home. Another wonders whether a crewed launch will ever be as simple as a systems check and a look at the weather. A few wish the commentators had talked less over the callouts. And one sharp-eyed viewer points to the moment, just under two hours into the replay, when an insect seems to land on the camera lens.
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What viewers say
I got goosebumps, brilliant to watch.
@annlindsaywright3169See it on YouTubeThe perk of working from home is getting to watch these live, this is awesome!
@FastforceRsSee it on YouTube1:57:33 at the T+06:44 see an insect get caught on the camera lens? Or am I the only one?
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- Channel
- VideoFromSpace
- Subscribers
- 2,150,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 499,388
- Video published
- September 29, 2026
- Video views so far
- 260,871 (3 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 260,921 (on a normal day: 26,092)
The numbers
A single replay drew about as many views in one day as the rest of a busy channel did combined.
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