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 Space Race comes alive through the eyes of the ultimate insider - retired NASA Mission Control F...

CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive ...

The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with th...

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...
On December 21, Nicolas Vanier will set off with his pack on a new expedition called L’Odyssée sauva...

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer...

It was November 12, 2014, at 5:03pm. Humanity had just accomplished a feat that will forever mark it...

It follows a group of investigators as they return to the nuclear zone in Fukushima to uncover the s...

This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...

How an electric lineman's tool manufacturer in Centralia, Missouri, helped save the first American s...

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

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

Did Mars ever have life on it? To answer this question, Europe and Russia have launched a unique and...

Social isolation affects millions of people, even Mars-bound astronauts. A savvy NASA psychologist i...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

NASA's biggest spacecraft, Cassini, plunges into Saturn in the final act of a 20-year mission showca...

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...

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

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