Space & Flight

  • An Interview With Sally Ride Watch an uncut interview with the late astronaut, conducted in 1984, and hear her views on being the first American woman in space. Watch now.

  • Ultimate Mars Challenge In its search for life beyond Earth, NASA deploys a new "sky crane" to land the Curiosity rover on Mars. Coming soon

  • The Deadliest Plane Crash NOVA investigates the worst aviation accident of all time. Watch now.

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Books

  • Carl Sagan

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  • The Universe in a Nutshell

    by Stephen Hawking

  • Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic History

    by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith

  • Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle

    by Michael Benson

  • Orbit

    by Jay Apt

  • Distant Worlds: Milestones in Planetary Exploration

    by Peter Bond

  • A Passion for Mars: Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet

    by Andrew Chaikin

  • Are We Alone? The Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life

    by Paul Davies

  • Aviation: The Early Years

    by Peter Almond

  • Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight

    by Paul Hoffman

  • The Wright Brothers and The Invention of the Aerial Age

    by Tom D. Crouch and Peter L. Jakab

  • The Art of Flying

    by Robert N. Buck

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