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This documentary is about NASA′s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft. It is the third mission in NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Probes program.

A NASA documentary about early space flight.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States Government, responsible for the nation’s public space program. Established on July 29, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space…

The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander…

Atlas is a family of U.S. space launch vehicles. The original Atlas missile was designed in the late 1950s. It was a liquid-fuel rocket burning LOX and RP-1 in three engines configured in an unusual “stage-and-a-half” or “Parallel Staging” design:…

How solar eruptions could threaten our high-tech society. A SpaceRipTV original, in collaboration with Space.com.

Narrated by Morgan Freeman, Cosmic Voyage explores some of the greatest scientific theories, many of which have never before been visualized on film before in a mix of ground-breaking computer animation and cutting-edge science.

Apollo 8 was the first manned voyage to a celestial body. Its three-man crew of Mission Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to see the far side of…

Ripples in the fabric of space-time from monumental collisions between black holes, and how scientists are trying to measure them with lasers and mirrors. From LIGO and the National Science Foundation.

The Solar System, or solar system, consists of the Sun and the other celestial objects gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their 166 known moons,three dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, and Eris and their four known moons), and billions of…

A telescope is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects by the collection of electromagnetic radiation. The first known practically functioning telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century. “Telescopes” can refer to…

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly named the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST) is a space observatory being used to perform gamma-ray astronomy observations from low Earth orbit. Its main instrument is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), with…

The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo program and the third human voyage to the moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Commander…

The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF) is an infrared space observatory. It is the fourth and final of NASA’s Great Observatories.
The planned nominal mission period was to be 2.5 years with a pre-launch expectation…

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery in April 1990. It is named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Although not the first space telescope, the Hubble is…

The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery in April 1990. It is named for the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Although not the first space telescope, the Hubble is one…

John F. Kennedy lobbies Congress for a half a billion dollars that started the space program. That included the Apollo Mission to go to the moon and early weather and communications satellites.

John Herschel Glenn Jr. (born July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio) is an American astronaut, Marine Corps fighter pilot, ordained Presbyterian elder, corporate executive, United States Senator, and Democratic politician. He was the third American to fly in space and…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation’s public space program. NASA was established on July 29, 1958, by the National Aeronautics and Space Act.
In addition to the space…

Millions remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns, and parades as the U.S. raced the USSR to the moon in the 1960s. But few know that both countries also ran parallel space programs, whose covert goal was to launch military astronauts on…

NASA sends two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, to Mars to search for signs of water, in the distant past or currently. Why water? Because life as we know it could not exist without it.
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A black hole is a theoretical region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even electromagnetic radiation (e.g. visible light), can escape its pull after having fallen past its event horizon. The term derives…

In the wake of several failed missions to Mars, NASA dispatches the aptly named Phoenix to see if soil conditions on the Red Planet might have allowed for the development of life the holy grail of Mars exploration.
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The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, with the loss of all seven crew members, shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its…

An educational film made by General Electric in the 1950’s. I think the first time I saw this film must have been in grade school. It has all the longwinded narration and silly animations that make it great. This is…

A whole new space race is on, with half a dozen countries launching missions to the Moon: to pave the way for a permanent human presence. A SPACERIP TV original, in collaboration with SPACE.COM.

The extraterrestrial energyzoa hypothesis (ETZH) is and alternative hypothesis of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, that some of the UFO phenomena is best explained as being some kind of biological lifeforms and not creatures from other planets occupying physical spacecraft visiting Earth.…

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the “Red Planet” because of its reddish appearance, due to iron…

This film describes the reconnaissance that was necessary to find good landing spots for the upcoming Apollo missions. The Ranger series was the first U.S. attempt to obtain close-up images of the Lunar surface. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to…

Tom Smith headed up the Special Effects team at Industrial Light & Magic, where he created all the goodies for the ‘Star Wars’ films. This is his academic film masterwork, which took over a year to create, over 13 weeks…

The Space Race was an informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could make the furthest advancements into space first. It involved the efforts to explore outer space with artificial satellites, to send humans…

NASA’s Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions. At launch, it consists of a rust-colored external tank (ET), two white, slender Solid Rocket…

Here’s a couple of newsreels about where the race for space all started. On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik and amateur radio operators all over the world received the signal.
Not to be outdone by the Soviets,…

Narrated by Burgess Meredith. The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo program and the third human voyage to the moon. Launched on July 16,…

Go to the limits of human experience…and beyond. From the fringes of the galaxy to our own backyards, the UFO FILES searches for evidence of life beyond our world. Tracing the long, convoluted history of UFO encounters and research, this…

Many works of fiction have featured UFOs. In most cases, as the fictional story progresses, the Earth is being invaded by hostile alien forces from outer space, usually from Mars, as depicted in early science fiction, or the people are…

Crop circles are patterns created by the flattening of crops such as wheat, barley, rapeseed (also called “canola”), rye, corn, linseed and soy. The term was first used by researcher Colin Andrews to describe simple circles he was researching. Although…

An Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO, is the popular term for any aerial phenomenon that cannot immediately be identified. Some definitions, such as the one used by the USAF, define a UFO as an object unable to be identified after…

The Universe is a documentary television series that premiered on May 29, 2007 on History. The program is produced by Flight 33 Productions and Workaholic Productions. The show features computer-generated imagery/computer graphics of astronomical objects in the universe and interviews…

This is a 1961 film about the possibility of interplanetary travel using satellites for construction space vehicles. Lots of pretty colors and neat animations.

Who’s Out There (1975) is a film exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial life. It is moderated by Orson Welles and has an appearance by Carl “Billions and Billions” Sagan.

In the 1960’s they launched satellites to survey the earth and the moon. Early scientific experiments only carried instruments into space. Later missions included experiments carrying plant and animal life. Nasa also sent deep space probes to examine the outer…