TVDATA licenses historic launch archive footage for documentaries, television, museums, education projects, YouTube documentaries, news features, and factual media productions.
Our archive includes rare footage of rocket launches, Soviet space missions, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soyuz launches, Mir Space Station material, mission control footage, launch preparation, engineers, cosmonauts, and Cold War space race history.
Cosmodrome Baikonur Rocket Launch Rare Archival Footage
Good for: Soviet space programme, Baikonur Cosmodrome, rocket launch footage, Cold War space race, historic launch documentary clips.
These clips are useful for producers, researchers, editors, broadcasters, museums, and online publishers working on space history, science documentaries, Soviet technology, Cold War history, and historic space exploration.
TVDATA preview clips can be viewed on our YouTube channel. To request licensing, please send the video title, YouTube link, and exact timecode required.
Most TVDATA space and launch preview clips are available on the TVDATA YouTube channel. To request licensing, please send the video title, YouTube link, and exact timecode.
Soviet Launch Crew Positions Booster on Baikonur Pad
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCvcF6iGPss
Good for: launch preparation, Soviet rocket technology, Baikonur operations, space engineers, behind-the-scenes cosmodrome footage.
Historic Space Emergencies — Mission Control Center, Korolev
Good for: Soviet mission control, space emergencies, Korolev control centre, space documentary research.
Good for: Mir Space Station, Soviet orbital programme, space archive footage, 1980s–1990s space history.
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Watch the moment ESA astronaut Reinhold Ewald and Russian crewmates Vasily Tsibliyev & Aleksandr Lazutkin leave the Baikonur crew bus, climb Pad 1, and lift off for Mir on 10 Feb 1997.