Nasa Movies

In the 1950s and early '60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extreme forces of the space age long before NASA's...

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...

The Apollo 17 mission was the final opportunity to collect first hand information about the history and origin of the Moon. This film looks at this...

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

A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power...

The complex engineering challenges that make re-entry into the earth's atmosphere so dangerous. Scientists have labored for years to bring a crew...

Everyone knows Neil Armstrong came back from the Moon in 1969 – but it wasn’t until three years later, when the people of a tiny Scottish...

A respectful overview of Dr. Marvin E. Grunzke’s career that included training Ham, the first chimpanzee launched into orbit by NASA.

In the midst of one of the most significant moments in human history - the Moon landing - a guy working at a NASA warehouse has his own little...

July 1969. America made history and sent the first humans to the moon. High-quality NASA footage and extensive news broadcasts bring this sensational...

The inside story of America's race to the moon.

"Destination Moon" is the third in the trio of documentaries about the beginnings of the space age. It documents JPL's ambitious plan to beat the...

Tells the thrilling, heroic and unexpectedly funny story of the six women who defied the odds, the naysayers and gravity itself to become...

Moonscape is a free and freely downloadable high-definition documentary about the first manned Moon landing. Funded and produced by space...

Explores the extraordinary, transformative events Cocoa Beach residents found themselves engaged in during the 1950s and 1960s as the exploration of...

"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 discusses what had been learned about the planet Mars from Earth-based telescopes, observations from the fly-by Mariner spacecraft, and...

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...

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