"The American Rocketeer" tells the controversial story of aviation engineer Frank Malina, whose fundamental role in the evolution of American rocketry is largely forgotten. Malina, along with a motley crew of amateur rocket enthusiasts and fellow California Institute of Technology students, conducted the first stand-up rocket engine test on Halloween in 1936 in the Pasadena Arroyo. On this 75th anniversary of those tests, this 90-minute, intensely personal documentary explores the complexities of Malina's life and the profound ramifications his work had on Caltech and the nation. "Though there are many fascinating characters in the American Rocketeer, at its core, this film is a personal story of one man's dreams," noted producer Blaine Baggett, "and how his ideas and idealism put him on a collision course with the world."

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

In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade ...

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

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

Before the joint NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission, humanity only knew what had been learned, decades...

Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx attempts to grab a piece of an asteroid to bring back to Earth so scientists c...

This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

Horizon visits state-of-the-art laboratories and uses CGI to recreate the science-fiction-worthy wea...

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

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

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

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

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

The Space Race comes alive through the eyes of the ultimate insider - retired NASA Mission Control F...

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

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

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

For over three decades, NASA and an international team of scientists and engineers pushed the limits...