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...

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

Before the joint NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission, humanity only knew what had been learned, decades...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space....

Everyone knows Neil Armstrong came back from the Moon in 1969 – but it wasn’t until three years late...

Commemorating the space agency's 50th anniversary, follow John Glenn's Mercury mission to orbit the ...

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

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

A billion miles from home, running low on fuel, and almost out of time. After 13 years traversing th...

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