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.

The inside story of SpaceX's plan to get humanity to Mars, providing an unprecedented glimpse into o...

When the world was in turmoil, three men went faster and farther than anyone thought possible. This ...

The inspirational rise of SpaceX as well as Elon Musk's two-decade effort to resurrect America’s spa...

Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

In 1961, no one believed President Kennedy’s pledge to put a man on the moon by the end of the decad...
Directed by African American William Greaves and narrated by actor Ricardo Montalban, Where Dreams C...

This documentary follows the founder of Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberte, as he makes his way to the ...

The most complete record ever available of this historic mission. This documentary chronicles Americ...

The story of America's first astronauts, known as the Mercury 7, told through archival news & radio ...

A collection of NASA films, from Project Mercury to the Space Shuttle.

April 13th, 1970, 180,000 miles from Earth, a devastating malfunction leaves Apollo 13 leaking previ...

"Destination Moon" is the third in the trio of documentaries about the beginnings of the space age. ...

In the mid-1960's, after the success of Project Mercury, the need to master long-duration missions a...

This 3-DVD collection is the most comprehensive ever assembled on the Saturn V. Packed with spectacu...

The 1950s were a time marked by an idealistic feeling. The atomic age, with its promise to save huma...

Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the m...

Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes follows the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew, spec...

The inspirational true story of Opportunity, a rover that was sent to Mars for a 90-day mission but ...