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.

With access to the scientists and engineers responsible for the Curiosity rover's on-the-ground expe...

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

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

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

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

What if you could get behind the wheel and race through space? We scale down the Solar System to the...

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

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

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

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

Sally Ride's groundbreaking journey as the first American woman in space concealed a deeply personal...
On December 21, Nicolas Vanier will set off with his pack on a new expedition called L’Odyssée sauva...

From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcan...

Before the joint NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission, humanity only knew what had been learned, decades...

An epic journey around Mars — built from real satellite and rover data — revealing the red planet as...

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

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

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

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