Before Launching into Space

Aspiring teenage astronauts reveal that a journey to Mars is closer than you think.

Who were the men and women of Project Apollo? Where are they today? What do they think of the extraordinary effort they helped make possible?...

National Geographic's riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using only archival footage, photos and audio.

At 38, Thomas Pesquet is the youngest French astronaut to be selected for a 180 days mission in the ISS. Oleg Novitskiy, the Russian pilot and the...

Never-before-heard audio tapes recorded with Neil Armstrong during the final years of his life reveal an intimate portrait of this iconic - and...

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

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...

All of the necessary technologies required to reach the Moon was first tested during Project Gemini, which comprised of ten missions in the mid-1960s.

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

The artist Tom Sachs and his team of bricoleurs build a handmade space program and send two female astronauts to Mars

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

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