A billion miles from home, running low on fuel and almost out of time, after 13 years orbiting Saturn the spacecraft Cassini is about to plunge to a fiery death, becoming part of the very planet it has been exploring all these years.As this marvellous spacecraft embarks on its final assignment, a one-way trip straight into the heart of Saturn, the BBC series Horizon tracks it's last journey an
This series explains the scientific evidence for our origins, from the Big Bang to the human migration out of Africa, in a way that most 7th-graders would understand.It challenges people who believe we were created by a deity 6,000 years ago to confront the evidence instead of ignoring it.About the Author: Potholer. I’ve been a journalist for 20 years, 14 years as a science correspon
For All Mankind is a 1989 documentary film documenting the Apollo missions of NASA.The film provides 80 minutes of real NASA footage, taken on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The focus of the documentary is on the human views of the space flights, and the original mission footage is provided along with the voices of the astronauts, from interviews and from the actual mission re
On December 16th, 2017, footage shot by the U.S. Navy spread panic amongst the American population, until then classified as a top-secret defense matter. In this release, three videos of unidentified flying objects filmed by F-18s were made public and they would be authenticated by the pentagon in April 2020.The first video dates from November 2004, it was filmed by a patrol flying near the U
A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. The film combines this new footage with Gagarin's original mission audio and a new musical score by composer Philip Sheppard. For more information visit http://www.firstorbit.org/
Witness the relentless power of Earth’s worst weather, before traveling the universe to find the 17,500kmh winds and methane storms of space.
Ever wondered what would happen if you were sucked into a black hole? Or, if wormholes could make time travel a reality? And could life on Earth survive a huge meteor strike like the one that took out the dinosaurs?Now you can find out in this captivating series. Join experts as they unravel the most mind-boggling mysteries of the cosmos, using the latest scientific theories, dramatic time seq
Evacuate Earth is a National Geographic Channel documentary that tells the what-if story of the evacuation of the planet Earth which is due to be destroyed by a rogue Neutron Star. The documentary goes into the technical and social complications of building an Ark to save humanity and other Earth life and moving them to a planet in another star system.
Messengers In the last episode of Professor Brian Cox’s epic journey across the universe, he travels from the fossils of the Burgess Shale to the sands of the oldest desert in the world to show how light holds the key to our understanding of the whole universe, including our own deepest origins.To understand how light holds the key to the story of the universe, you first have to understand its p