It started with an order to land something on Mars - cheaply. In NASA's new era of "faster, better, cheaper," this mission had to create a radically different way of building a spacecraft. "The Pathfinders" tells the story of a small group of JPL'ers who dismissed warnings that a cut-rate mission to Earth's distant neighbor would cut short their careers. With a Martian parachute that could not be tested in Earth's atmosphere, and the last-minute addition of a remote controlled vehicle that would not look out of place in a toy store, the Pathfinder mission was a doubter's dream. Vet the future prospects of JPL and of a Mars program in its infancy, depended on bouncing successfully onto the rocky Red Planet and releasing a curious six-wheeled wanderer, in hopes of starting a revolution in space exploration.

Commemorating the space agency's 50th anniversary, follow John Glenn's Mercury mission to orbit the ...

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...

With more than 27 years of service, the space shuttle Discovery has clocked more time in space than ...

In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space....

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

The Academy Award® nominee Cosmic Voyage combines live action with state-of-the-art computer-generat...

A featurette detailing NASA's plans for putting humans on Mars over the next twenty or thirty years,...

One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps is the dramatic and moving real-life tale of the Unite...

The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with th...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...

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

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

Moonscape is a free and freely downloadable high-definition documentary about the first manned Moon ...

The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Ameri...

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

From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcan...

With access to the scientists and engineers responsible for the Curiosity rover's on-the-ground expe...

All of the necessary technologies required to reach the Moon was first tested during Project Gemini,...

Sally Ride's groundbreaking journey as the first American woman in space concealed a deeply personal...

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