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?

American high school students from the privileged Silicon Valley travel to Manang, Nepal in this doc...

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

One man, one camera, one goal...to capture the essence of adventure. An experimental, often abstract...

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial r...

Did Cartier dream of making a country from this land of a million birds? In his records of his explo...

The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.

T. S. Eliot ends one of his most famous poems, "The Hollow Men", by repeating three times the senten...

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

Finnish award-winning barista Kalle Freese travels to San Francisco with his girlfriend to start an ...

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

Explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his ten-man crew sailed their reed boat, the Tigris, over routes he beli...

This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech ex...

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

Magical, autonomous, all-powerful… Artificial intelligences feed our dreams as well as our nightmare...

Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in th...

A tale of how the great vision and epic failure of General Magic, the "greatest dead company in Sili...

The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

A documentary re-telling of the remarkable and dangerous journey taken by President Theodore Rooseve...

Nearly forty years after the moon landing the men on the mission reveal what really happened. On how...