The complex engineering challenges that make re-entry into the earth's atmosphere so dangerous. Scientists have labored for years to bring a crew safely home in what is essentially a meteorite, wrapped in a cocoon of fire, hurtling towards earth six times faster than the fastest bullet. Scientific experts from NASA explain the significance of Columbia's events as they unfolded, offer insights into what may have caused them and how those key events contributed to the shuttle’s ultimate destruction.
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...
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WBGU-TV celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing (July 2019) with a special collection of...
A 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our ...
Using extraordinarily high resolution data sets from some of the most innovative and powerful scient...
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Uncover clues about the origins of our galaxy with a team of astronomers and scientists as they stri...
This is the complete story of NASA's Moon Missions, from Apollo 1 to Apollo 17, told for the first t...
This remarkable journey across our planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars, and ...
The spectacular moon landing in 1969 was also a success of more than 100 technicians and engineers f...
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
When the world was in turmoil, three men went faster and farther than anyone thought possible. This ...
A film from which you can learn about the first progress of the USSR in space exploration, as well a...
Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the m...
A group of renowned cosmologists and astrophysicist are in search of a realistic picture of the univ...
Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes follows the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew, spec...
The special details the events before, during, and after Shatner's life-changing flight - which made...
In northern Peru, the unprecedented archaeological discovery of the largest known mass child sacrifi...
A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtai...