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?

Growing up in poverty as a child, Dylan dreamt of travelling the world on a motorcycle. Many years l...

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

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 ...

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.

Best friends Hazel Findlay and Maddy Cope journey to the rocky outer reaches of Mongolia, on a quixo...

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

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

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

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

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...

Spacelift Transporting Trek Into The 21st Century, shows you how they Remastered The Special Effects...

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

Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelt...

The deep waters of the Southern and Pacific Oceans still hold many mysteries. Two international team...

The roller-coaster ride of the upstart transportation company, embodying the highs and lows of Silic...

Documentary telling the story of silicon chip inventor Robert Noyce, godfather of today's digital wo...