In the 1950s and early '60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extreme forces of the space age long before NASA's acclaimed Mercury 7 would make headlines. Though largely forgotten today, balloonists were the first to venture into the frozen near-vacuum on the edge of our world, exploring the very limits of human physiology and human ingenuity in this lethal realm.

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

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

Moonscape is a free and freely downloadable high-definition documentary about the first manned Moon ...

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

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

Social isolation affects millions of people, even Mars-bound astronauts. A savvy NASA psychologist i...

Explores achievements of Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft, paving t...

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...

NASA may have just gotten one step closer to the answering the question: are we alone? The Spitzer T...

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

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

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

All of the necessary technologies required to reach the Moon was first tested during Project Gemini,...

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

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

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

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the myste...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...

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