Space

Seven Days on Mars

Seven Days on Mars

Professor Brian Cox fulfils a childhood dream by going behind the scenes at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This is mission control for Mars 2020, one of the most ambitious projects ever launched that may reveal if life existed on the red planet. With unique, privileged access, Brian watches the rover, Perseverance, travel the surface of Mars in real time, seeking out signs of alien existence

Last Flight of The Columbia

In February 2003, the space shuttle Columbia returned to Earth after a 16-day mission. But then disaster struck. Miles above the planet’s surface, the shuttle began to break apart. Mixing powerful and deeply moving footage with telling forensic analysis, this documentary reveals what really went wrong with space shuttle Columbia and how crew and ship could have possibly been saved.

Moon Landing

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This exhilarating, immersive documentary takes us back to 1969 and relives the drama of America’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

Focusing on the nail-biting launch and the perilous landing on the lunar surface, the film reveals how close the mission came to disaster.