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?

Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césai...

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

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...

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

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

The first biographical documentary film about the greatest Brazilian sailor by miles traveled. Sett...

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

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

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

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

The New Horizons team examines the latest findings and imagery from Pluto and the fringes of our sol...

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

A modern team of explorers venture to the legendary "Lost World"- the remote jungle plateau of Rorai...

A documentary about New Zealanders in Antarctica: researching International Geophysical Year, and su...

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...

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

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