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.

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

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

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

Never-before-aired NASA footage presents evidence that the Moon is being used as a base.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Documentary about space colonization: a voyage across our planet, into the stars and beyond.

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

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

Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...