Nasa Movies

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

It has been said that 10,000 years from now only one name will still be remembered, that of Neil Armstrong. But in the four decades since he first...

NASA film documenting the launch and commissioning of AzTechSat-1, a pioneering one-to-one communications satellite in space.

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

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

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?...

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...

After rigorous testing in 1961, a small group of skilled female pilots are asked to step aside when only men are selected for spaceflight.

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

Computer animation and footage from NASA space missions explain how our solar system evolved and the place Earth has within the system.

This provocative and insightful film is the first in a series of documentaries that will reveal the secret knowledge embedded in the work of the...

A documentary short originally played at the Kennedy Space Center's 70mm theater during the 1960's before the moon landing in 1969 when it was...

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

NASA astronaut Jim Lovell explains the vast similarities between a successful space launch and serving burgers and fries in this half-hour video.

Before the joint NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission, humanity only knew what had been learned, decades earlier, with the previous limited, rapid...

NASA's biggest spacecraft, Cassini, plunges into Saturn in the final act of a 20-year mission showcasing the planet like never before. An incredible...

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...

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