Apollo 9: Spider Takes Flight

A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.

Nichelle Nichols' daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation's best and brightest, including the trailblazing astronauts who became the first African American, Asian and Latino men and women to fly in space.

"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 catastrophic explosion in the middle of their lunar journey. This 30-minute documentary features interviews with Apollo 13 Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise, as well as Flight Directors Gene Kranz and Glynn Lunney, with engineer Hank Rotter. Parts of their interviews take place in the restored Apollo mission control room. This documentary also features original NASA footage and newly synchronized audio from Mission Control. Thanks to Stephen Slater and Ben Feist/Apollo in Real-Time (apolloinrealtime.org/13) for providing additional footage and audio.

Der Raub des Mondgesteins

Curiosity: Life of A Mars Rover

The Academy Award® nominee Cosmic Voyage combines live action with state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery to pinpoint where humans fit in our ever-expanding universe. Highlighting this journey is a "cosmic zoom" based on the powers of 10, extending from the Earth to the largest observable structures in the universe, and then back to the subnuclear realm.

From the unique vantage point of 200 miles above Earth's surface, we see how natural forces - volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes - affect our world, and how a powerful new force - humankind - has begun to alter the face of the planet. From Amazon rain forests to Serengeti grasslands, Blue Planet inspires a new appreciation of life on Earth, our only home.

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 the possibility of other life forming around distant stars.

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 were their "enemies" who couldn't be trusted. Somewhere in all this a young girl in Oklahoma named Shannon set her sights on becoming one of those space explorers, even though she was told "girls can't do that." But she did.

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus interviews with the surviving astronauts, including Jim Lovell, Dave Scott, John Young, Gene Cernan, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell, Charlie Duke and Harrison Schmitt.

In this video, you can hear their stories in their own words. David Hartman hosts a Salute to the Apollo Program featuring astronauts Walt Cunningham, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, Buzz Aldrin, Dick Gordon, Fred Haise, Al Worden, Jack Schmitt, Joe Engle, and flight director Gene Kranz.

The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with them the delights of zero gravity while working, eating and sleeping in orbit around the Earth. Float as never before over the towering Andes, the boot of Italy, Egypt and the Nile. Witness firsthand a tension-filled satellite capture and repair and the historic first spacewalk by an American woman.

Ten separate programs detailing the individual technological challenges and how they were overcome to reach the moon. Produced for NASA by M.I.T., they are an extraordinary detailed account of how man first left the Earth to travel to the moon and return safely home.

Eleven Progress reports produced by the Manned Spacecraft Center (later the Johnson Space Center) in Houston. They cover January 1, 1964 through July, 1969. Offering unique insights into the operations behind the Gemini and Apollo programs, they are filled with rare footage documenting the 1960's at the center.

Project Mercury flew 6 successful missions and developed the early experience that would take the U.S. to the moon.

Each of the first 10 Space Shuttle missions. For each mission, the post-mission press conference film, a compilation of video highlights, selected television transmissions, as well as additional material as available for individual missions.

A collection of rare interviews/biographies of some of the first U.S. Astronauts, in pieces produced by NASA in the 1967 time-frame. Each has a running time of 6-9 minutes. Featured are: Tom Stafford, Donn Eisele, Jim McDivitt, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Wally Schirra, Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, Frank Borman, John Young and Rusty Schweickart.

The Saturn I and IB were the first steps in developing large, clustered launch vehicles which eventually provided the power for the United States' exploration of space. Born of a U.S. Army project, the Saturns were transferred to NASA and adopted to carry man into Earth orbit. The lessons learned from the early Saturns were applied to developing the Saturn V moon rocket, and were essential vehicles on America's road to mission success.

Over the course of 199 flights, the X-15 rocket plane pushed the boundaries of aerospace with trips out to mach 6.7 and altitudes of over 350,000 feet. The extraordinary record of the X-15 has been unmatched in flight test, and remains a fascinating story of pushing experience to the edge of space.

The complete Apollo 11 moonwalk television as restored by NASA and Lowry Digital in 2009-2010. Assembled from multiple feeds and sources, each chosen as the best quality record of the EVA, it is the result of several years of search and work on the part of a team of Apollo veterans and volunteers working together to create the very best presentation possible of one of history's great moments of exploration.