Science / Space Science / Space Exploration

A captivating history of NASA's Space Transportation System—the space shuttle—chronicling the inevitable failures of a doomed design.

The science of finding habitable planets beyond our solar system and the prospects for establishing human civilization away from our ever-less-habitable planetary home.

Can we do better in space than we've done here on Earth?

The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.

How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight—the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.