Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

Top Gear presenter James May presents this informative program that examines the historic moon missions. Traveling to America, May meets three of the...

On January 28, 1986, NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy when the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. On board was physicist...

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

The spectacular moon landing in 1969 was also a success of more than 100 technicians and engineers from Germany, some of whom had already...

July 20, 1969. Apollo 11 lands on the surface of the Moon. Such a feat was apparently performed to the greater glory of all mankind, but actually it...

50 years on from the moon landings, researchers worldwide are working towards an ambitious goal: a permanent research station on the moon. This...

A few years before the first manned flight to the moon, Pan Am began selling tickets there. 100,000 people joined the club of the first space...

A film from which you can learn about the first progress of the USSR in space exploration, as well as about the achievements of Yuri Gagarin, the...

Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Venus and Mars, and find proof of new planets and...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russians were our "enemies". And to them the Americans...

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

New Horizons is the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt of rocky, icy objects beyond. Principal Investigator Alan Stern leads a mission team...