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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on t...

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...

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