Discover how the big, bold ideas of Silicon Valley are helping launch a new era of private space exploration in this half-hour KQED Science documentary. From space tourism to mining the moon to companies ferrying NASA astronauts into space, a new wave of commercialization is shaking up the $300-billion global space industry. Meet a new generation of entrepreneurs, sprung from the high-tech culture of Silicon Valley, who are venturing into the new "wild west" of space exploration in search of their space gold. But are there new risks when space is no longer the exclusive domain of big governments?
This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronauti...
Rocketman is a hilarious glimpse into the true story of Michael "Mad Mike" Hughes, a flat Earther wh...
Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césai...
Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus in...
The Sealab project, launched in 1969 off the shore of northern California, was the brainchild of a c...
Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laborat...
This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech ex...
A documentary about New Zealanders in Antarctica: researching International Geophysical Year, and su...
One man, one camera, one goal...to capture the essence of adventure. An experimental, often abstract...
Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in th...
Did Cartier dream of making a country from this land of a million birds? In his records of his explo...
Apple. Intel. Genentech. Atari. Google. Cisco. Stratospheric successes with high stakes all around. ...
Best friends Hazel Findlay and Maddy Cope journey to the rocky outer reaches of Mongolia, on a quixo...
Nearly forty years after the moon landing the men on the mission reveal what really happened. On how...
The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton.
The New Horizons team examines the latest findings and imagery from Pluto and the fringes of our sol...
For six weeks we explored the Antarctic Peninsula by sea kayak, sailboat, foot and small plane, obse...
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial r...
The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.
Explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his ten-man crew sailed their reed boat, the Tigris, over routes he beli...