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.

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

Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx attempts to grab a piece of an asteroid to bring back to Earth so scientists c...

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

With access to the scientists and engineers responsible for the Curiosity rover's on-the-ground expe...
An inspiring documentary film that details the life mission of Col. Ilan Ramon, the first and only A...

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men w...

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

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

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

Never-before-aired NASA footage presents evidence that the Moon is being used as a base.

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...