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.

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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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The numbers

A single replay drew about as many views in one day as the rest of a busy channel did combined.

views per day, this video

typical day

0

now

260,921

subscribers

2,150,000

total views

752,072,566

views per day

499,388

the video

views

260,871

likes

1,756

comments

13

days online

3

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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2,260,000

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2,230,000

Max Velocity - Severe Wea…

2,170,000

VideoFromSpace

2,150,000

Reed Timmer

2,070,000

Beyond the Observable Uni…

2,060,000

As of October 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.