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In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager missions as a way of exploring the solar system's outermost planets, capturing images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their moons. "The farthest" documents Voyager's journey, including first-hand accounts of the men and women who built the ships and guided their missions. Bonus film "Second genesis" explores the scientific quest to find life, or evidence of it, beyond Earth.
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As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
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Expedition Mars brings to life one of the greatest sagas of the space age: the epic adventures of Spirit and Opportunity, the rovers that reinvigorated NASA's Mars program - after a string of disappointments in the 1990s - and opened the Martian frontier with the first overland expeditions on another planet. -- (container)
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The 1937 explosion of the Hindenburg airship was one of the 20th century's most famous disasters. In its day, the dirigible was the world's fastest, most technologically advanced, and most luxurious transportation. But in 34 seconds, the aircraft was gone. Was it a victim of the nitrogen gas used for lift? A retired NASA scientist and hydrogen specialist sets out to prove that the Hindenburg's real flaw was only skin deep.
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The story of the Air Force test flights by Chuck Yeager that would lead to Project Mercury, which pioneered America's launch into the space race-- and of the seven men chosen to launch the U.S. into space: Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton.
8) Ascension
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A Syfy original mini-series inspired by the real life Project Orion that thrived under President John F. Kennedy.
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If people were meant to fly, they'd be given wings. That's what the world told the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright--but they refused to believe it. This is the thrilling story of two American bicycle repairmen that ignored all those who said it couldn't be done and risked everything, including their very lives, to become the first to manage powered flight. Return to the days of the Wright Brothers and see how their perseverance changed our world....
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An astronaut-in-training has to leave NASA (to save the family farm) but just can't give up on his dream of shooting into space, even if he has to do it all by himself. And that will of course get everyone up in arms, from his wife to his banker to the town gossips to the media and the Department of Homeland Security.
14) NASA: 25 years
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Looks at NASA's efforts in the space race, sometimes successful, sometimes tragic.
15) Apollo 18
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Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where two American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.
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Follows the history of the aerial assault vehicle from the creation of the aeroplane to its militarization during World War I and the Russian Revolution. Viewers learn that it was the Spanish Civil War that served as the testing ground for the German airplanes of the Third Reich in the lead-up to the Second World War, and more.
18) October sky
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True story of a young boy growing up in Coalwood, West Virginia during the 1950's who dreams of building rockets.
19) Dreams of flight
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Chronicles the history of aviation, from the events and spirit of adventure that led man from the confines of the earth into the mysteries of the skies, through the glory days of flight technology and into the realm of experimental aircraft that broke the sound barrier.