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

It's June 1942 and the world's fate is about to be decided by a handful of pilots and their untested...

Getting information about the enemy is vital in war, and today's aerial spies have science fiction c...

Follows the development of Canadair's super-executive jet. A totally new type of aircraft, it is fas...
A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made fo...

Air Disasters exposes some painful truths behind the world of flight, using actual footage of real i...

Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Ven...

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

In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade ...

An epic journey around Mars — built from real satellite and rover data — revealing the red planet as...

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

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

Did Mars ever have life on it? To answer this question, Europe and Russia have launched a unique and...

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

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

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

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

Few aircraft have attracted more attention than the ominous black supersonic jet that for years has ...

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...