Return to Space

Return to Space (2022) is a Netflix documentary you can watch online on iFILM. It builds toward one date — May 30, 2020 — when SpaceX's Crew Dragon carried two astronauts off American soil for the first time since the shuttle was grounded.

Directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, the team behind Free Solo, don't open on victory. They open on rockets that blew apart, money running out, and a private company nobody expected to fly humans for NASA. Elon Musk talks through two decades of stubbornness, while astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken prepare to climb into a capsule built almost from scratch.

The cameras live inside the control rooms and catch faces in the last quiet minute before ignition. What makes it land is the human risk, not space-flight poetry — this is engineering drama for people who want the failures shown, not skipped. Stream Return to Space (2022) online on iFILM.