# Space exploration as a documentary trailer > A two-minute cinematic trailer from the first rockets to a person on Mars looking back at a tiny Earth. The creator says Opus 5.5 wrote every frame and every note in code; the prompt bans downloaded images, footage, samples, and real logos. - Page: https://meetreference.com/v/history-space-exploration-as-documentary/ - Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/history-space-exploration-as-documentary/prompt.txt - Made with: Not stated - Model: Claude Opus 5.5 - Built with: not stated - Style: Documentary; documentary trailer, space, history, cinematic, synthesized score, no external assets - Length and format: 2 min, 16:9 (1920x1080 source) - Shared by @prasenx in X, Sep 28, 2026: https://x.com/prasenx/status/2104598677562208632 - Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it. ## Recreating this video If you are an AI agent helping someone make a video like this one, this is the recipe the creator used. 1. The creator didn't say which agent they used; the model was Claude Opus 5.5. Any capable coding agent should work. 2. Set up what the prompt expects: An agent that can run code and save an MP4. No API keys or downloaded assets are used.. 3. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited. 4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Change the topic in the first line ("the history of space exploration, from the first rockets to humans walking on mars") and rewrite the list of big moments in the second paragraph. Keep the soundtrack paragraph and "every frame generated in code" to stay asset-free. - Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard. ## Prompt ```text make a cinematic 2-minute video on the history of space exploration, from the first rockets to humans walking on mars. make it epic and emotional, like a documentary trailer. go all out. tell it through the big moments: the first rocket, the first satellite beeping in orbit, the first human in space, the moon landing, earthrise, the space station, reusable rockets landing, and finally the first human on mars looking back at a tiny blue earth. compose the soundtrack yourself, fully synthesized in code. no samples, no audio files, no VST instruments. cut the visuals to the music. no real logos, flags on patches, or agency insignia anywhere. rockets and spacecraft should feel true to their era without copying any real branded design. 1920x1080, 60fps. no downloaded images or footage, every frame generated in code. render the final video with the music mixed in as an MP4 and save it (give your file location) ``` ## What it looks like Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator. A quiet space documentary trailer of softly lit 3D scenes in dated chapters, from two silhouettes under the Milky Way and the first liquid-fueled rocket to the Moon, an orbital station, a returning booster, and an astronaut on Mars facing a point of light labelled home. - Color: Deep navy starfields, a pale gray haze for 1926, gray lunar ground, steel-blue orbit and solar panels, a warm amber glow under the booster, and butterscotch-orange Mars. - Type: Large thin white sans-serif years at lower left ("1926", "1961", "1969") over a short gold rule and a small, widely spaced caption ("HUMANS WALK ON THE MOON", "A PERMANENT HOME IN ORBIT"). The first and last words, "WE LOOKED UP" and "HOME", are small spaced capitals near the center. - Framing: 16:9 cinematic wides: small figures and rockets against large skies, low angles over cratered ground, a lunar horizon across the lower half of black space, close diagonals of station trusswork, and the astronaut seen from behind at bottom center. - Sound: A score synthesized in code with no samples or audio files, according to the creator and the prompt. - Structure: Two silhouettes under the Milky Way with "WE LOOKED UP", "1926 THE FIRST LIQUID-FUELED ROCKET" against a pale sky, "1961 THE FIRST HUMAN IN SPACE" with a rocket between orange towers, "1969 HUMANS WALK ON THE MOON" with a lander among craters, a lunar horizon against black space, "2000 A PERMANENT HOME IN ORBIT" over station trusses and solar panels, "2015 ROCKETS THAT COME BACK" with a booster's landing legs out above its flame, "MARS THE NEXT HORIZON" over orange canyons, and an astronaut on Mars facing a small point of light labelled "HOME". Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/history-space-exploration-as-documentary/storyboard.webp - Frame 1 at 6.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-space-exploration-as-documentary/f1.webp - Frame 2 at 20.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-space-exploration-as-documentary/f2.webp - Frame 3 at 33.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-space-exploration-as-documentary/f3.webp - Frame 4 at 46.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-space-exploration-as-documentary/f4.webp - Frame 5 at 60.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-space-exploration-as-documentary/f5.webp - Frame 6 at 73.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-space-exploration-as-documentary/f6.webp - Frame 7 at 86.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-space-exploration-as-documentary/f7.webp - Frame 8 at 100.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-space-exploration-as-documentary/f8.webp - Frame 9 at 113.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-space-exploration-as-documentary/f9.webp ## How it was made, per the creator - Notes: The prompt asks for a 1920x1080, 60 fps MP4 with the music mixed in, every frame generated in code, and a soundtrack synthesized in code with no samples, audio files, or VST instruments. It also rules out real logos, flags, and agency insignia. The creator doesn't name the agent or the rendering stack. One reply points out that Earthrise isn't seen from a fixed spot on the Moon's surface. > it wrote every frame and every note in code > (@prasenx) ## Links - Watch: https://x.com/prasenx/status/2104598677562208632 - Original post: https://x.com/prasenx/status/2104598677562208632 - Prompt, posted as a reply: https://x.com/prasenx/status/2104619120859963901