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.

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

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

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

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

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

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...

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

The remarkable story of the determination and courage of a generation. A tribute to three brave astr...

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

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

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...

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

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

July 1969. America made history and sent the first humans to the moon. High-quality NASA footage and...

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

Social isolation affects millions of people, even Mars-bound astronauts. A savvy NASA psychologist i...

On January 28, 1986, NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy when the shuttle exploded 73 ...

Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on t...