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

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

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

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...

Commemorating the space agency's 50th anniversary, follow John Glenn's Mercury mission to orbit the ...
This film presents the principal features of the planets and the National Aeronautics and Space Admi...

The complex engineering challenges that make re-entry into the earth's atmosphere so dangerous. Scie...

Examine the remarkable role NASA plays both in our country and for our planet. Covering sixty years ...

This documentary by Theo Kamecke from 1970 gives an in-depth and profound look at the Apollo 11 miss...

A 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our ...

Nearly forty years after the moon landing the men on the mission reveal what really happened. On how...

200 years after Chopin's birth, the Space Shuttle Endeavour, like a giant piano, took the music of C...

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

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

On January 28, 1986, NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy when the shuttle exploded 73 ...

Relive humankind's incredible accomplishment of walking on the moon in this program that presents hi...
Designed for class instruction and career education, and to prove that space exploration isn’t just ...