A History of Project Mercury: Preparing for Man in Space

July 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are 240,000 miles from earth facing the most hazardous venture in the history of space flight;...

Designed for class instruction and career education, and to prove that space exploration isn’t just for the boys. The film interviews women...

When the world was in turmoil, three men went faster and farther than anyone thought possible. This is the story of the first people to leave the...

Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes follows the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew, specifically Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian to...

Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon. The U.S. space program suffered a bitter...

WBGU-TV celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing (July 2019) with a special collection of interviews from the friends and family of Neil...

Using extraordinarily high resolution data sets from some of the most innovative and powerful scientific instruments ever built, the media team at...

The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on February 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the...

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

It contains 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a million miles an hour. The temperature at its core is...

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

From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes - affect our...