SpaceX Starship Documentary Series

Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket. “Test Like You Fly” launches a series that takes you inside the factories and onto the launch pads where humanity's future in space is unfolding.

Critical Path offers an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the engineering marvel that is the SpaceX Starship program. The documentary details the iterative design philosophy, the high-stakes testing, and the relentless drive to build the largest and most powerful rocket ever flown. From the first conceptual sketches to the atmospheric re-entry and landing attempts, this film chronicles the single, complex path of innovation required to make life multi-planetary.

A fully and rapidly reusable rocket will fundamentally change how humanity accesses outer space. “The Holy Grail of Rocketry” continues the ongoing Starship series with a look back at the scrappy days of SpaceX engineers proving reuse was possible and takes you onboard a high-seas race to recover a floating Starship.

More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all come down to this: the first orbital Starship launch carrying advanced Starlink satellites bound for space. Watch “Go For Orbit” and experience the moments behind flying the most ambitious Starship mission yet.