Before Launching into Space

Sigmund Jähn, (East) Germany's first man in space, and the preparations for the space flight are portrayed.

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

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary...

In unusual circumstances, scientists from different countries work together to achieve a common scientific goal. Locked in their spinning space lab,...

The inside story of the Artemis II mission - filmed over three and a half years at NASA. How did four astronauts travel to the moon, going deeper...

Sally Ride's groundbreaking journey as the first American woman in space concealed a deeply personal story. Her life partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy,...

Commemorating the space agency's 50th anniversary, follow John Glenn's Mercury mission to orbit the earth, Neil Armstrong's first historic steps on...

The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Americans were preoccupied with other developments...

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...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting these pieces back together and re-tracing the...

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