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.
This film presents the principal features of the planets and the National Aeronautics and Space Admi...

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

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...

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

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

Sally Ride's groundbreaking journey as the first American woman in space concealed a deeply personal...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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