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...

Move over, King Tut: There's a new pharaoh on the scene. A team of top archaeologists and forensics ...

The remarkable story of the determination and courage of a generation. A tribute to three brave astr...

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

Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Ven...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps is the dramatic and moving real-life tale of the Unite...

The Academy Award® nominee Cosmic Voyage combines live action with state-of-the-art computer-generat...

July 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are 240,000 miles from earth facing the most ha...

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

With more than 27 years of service, the space shuttle Discovery has clocked more time in space than ...

In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade ...

The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Ameri...

In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space....

A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtai...

The Apollo 17 mission was the final opportunity to collect first hand information about the history ...

In unusual circumstances, scientists from different countries work together to achieve a common scie...