JPL and the Space Age: The Pathfinders
This episode retraces the journey of this daring mission to Mars that captured the imagination of people around the world with its dramatic landing and its tiny rover – the […]
This episode retraces the journey of this daring mission to Mars that captured the imagination of people around the world with its dramatic landing and its tiny rover – the […]
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Chronicling the story of NASA’s Cassini mission, using rare archival footage and interviews with pioneering engineers and scientists retelling the stories of many of humanity’s first steps into the cosmos.
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This episode chronicles JPLs pioneering work to understand asteroids and comets as part of NASA’s larger effort to protect our planet from asteroids and comets, before they find us.
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“The Breaking Point” tells the story of the demise of the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander missions and the abrupt end of NASA’s “Faster, Better, Cheaper” era.
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“The Changing Face of Mars” reveals, through archival footage and interviews with key scientists and engineers, JPL’s first roles in exploring the Red Planet, from Mariner 4 through the 1976 […]
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Explorer 1 traces the story of the role JPL played before the creation of NASA and how the lab was given a vital role as part of this new organization: […]
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After the establishment of NASA in 1958, JPL’s first major assignment was to explore the Moon, taking close-up images before crash landing as part of a series of missions called […]
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¡Es mediodía! ¿Por qué está oscureciendo? Por un eclipse de Sol. Los eclipses solares ocurren cuando la Luna se coloca entre el Sol y la Tierra.
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In this riveting inaugural episode of “The Color of Space,” we delve deep into the extraordinary life of Charlie Bolden, a man whose journey took him to the helm of […]
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An overview of the improvements made on the spacewalking suits and equipment used to assemble the International Space Station (ISS) while in orbit is presented. Details are given on the […]
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This film documents the first historic flight of a space shuttle, the U.S. spacecraft Columbia, which launched on April 12, 1981. The footage highlights liftoff, the onboard activities of astronauts […]
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During the eclipse, 14 states across the U.S. were in the path of totality and experienced more than two minutes of darkness in the middle of the day – with […]
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