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.

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

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

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

Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laborat...

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

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

NASA's biggest spacecraft, Cassini, plunges into Saturn in the final act of a 20-year mission showca...

Explores the extraordinary, transformative events Cocoa Beach residents found themselves engaged in ...

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the myste...

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

How an electric lineman's tool manufacturer in Centralia, Missouri, helped save the first American s...

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

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

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

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

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

Explores achievements of Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft, paving t...

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

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

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