It has been said that 10,000 years from now only one name will still be remembered, that of Neil Armstrong. But in the four decades since he first...

Shows the principal steps taken by NASA to place men on the moon and get them back safely within this decade.

"Houston, we've had a problem." Apollo 13 has become known as “a successful failure” that saw a safe return of the crew in spite of a...

This film presents the principal features of the planets and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) program for exploring them...

A documentary short originally played at the Kennedy Space Center's 70mm theater during the 1960's before the moon landing in 1969 when it was...

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

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...

A billion miles from home, running low on fuel, and almost out of time. After 13 years traversing the Saturn system, the spacecraft Cassini is...

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

NASA may have just gotten one step closer to the answering the question: are we alone? The Spitzer Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery of...

Apollo 7 was designated to make the essential test of the Apollo spacecraft before the ambitious lunar-orbital mission could be attempted. All...

Over forty years ago man first set foot on a body other than Earth, a milestone event in human history shared by millions back home on television. ...

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...

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

Documentary of Apollo 11 mission from NASA footage.

Join National Geographic on the greatest adventure of the 20th century- America's first manned flights to the moon. From lift-off to splashdown,...