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?
Adventurer, filmmaker, inventor, author, unlikely celebrity and conservationist: For over four decad...
Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laborat...
Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus in...
This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronauti...
Computer-generated imagery and other visualization techniques reveal how it would look if all the wa...
Rocketman is a hilarious glimpse into the true story of Michael "Mad Mike" Hughes, a flat Earther wh...
The inspirational rise of SpaceX as well as Elon Musk's two-decade effort to resurrect America’s spa...
The New Horizons team examines the latest findings and imagery from Pluto and the fringes of our sol...
The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Nearly forty years after the moon landing the men on the mission reveal what really happened. On how...
The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelt...
Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in th...
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...
Follow along as “budding YouTuber” Jack Carlin makes the hilariously unnecessary trip to the UK (ove...
This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech ex...
A documentary re-telling of the remarkable and dangerous journey taken by President Theodore Rooseve...