Travel into the world of aviation and explore the dreams of flight with the Smithsonian as they step into the unknown.

A look back at an incredible challenge that combines human adventure and historic exploit. In 1909, ...

Guy Martin joins the two-year restoration of a Spitfire that was buried in a French beach for decade...

In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite)...

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

In unusual circumstances, scientists from different countries work together to achieve a common scie...

The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that cul...

A celebration of those still flying the last remaining Grumman Albatross, a seaplane from a long-los...

This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus in...

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...

In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade ...
A film about the education of young aviators, which uses the natural interest of the youth in aviati...

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the myste...

National Geographic and NASA are sending you into space - live! For the first time ever, board the I...

Today London, tomorrow Paris, the day after New York – the life of the "jetsetter." Long before the ...

The New Horizons team examines the latest findings and imagery from Pluto and the fringes of our sol...

A new age of space exploration, and exploitation, is dawning. But surprisingly, some of the boldest ...

In one single, epic camera move we journey from Earth's surface to the outermost reaches of the univ...

Charles Lindbergh lived a life of absolutes, never doubting his own abilities or the altitude of his...