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

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

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

Doolittle's Raiders pull off a one-way bombing run over Tokyo and ditch their planes in and along th...

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the...

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

CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive ...

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

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

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

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

Guy Martin joins the two-year restoration of a Spitfire that was buried in a French beach for decade...
This film presents the principal features of the planets and the National Aeronautics and Space Admi...

Bob Hoover tells his own story and shares, with his trademark charm, the hard earned wisdom of a lif...

The complex engineering challenges that make re-entry into the earth's atmosphere so dangerous. Scie...

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

A short film of an aviation enthusiast who builds a flying machine the archaic way in her studio in ...

200 years after Chopin's birth, the Space Shuttle Endeavour, like a giant piano, took the music of C...

Luca Parmitano is the first italian astronaut to perform an extravehicular activity, currently part ...

BluScenes Journey Through Space gives you an astronaut's eye view of the wonders of the universe, fe...