Scott Carpenter was both a NASA astronaut and an aquanaut with the U.S. Navy.
A deep sea geologist explores submarine volcanoes at depths of 12,000 feet.
Congress created the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to make sure America was never beaten by technological surprise.
The scientist who developed the radar that helped win WWII also has a few other patents to his name.
The “Rad Lab” was the main research facility for the American radar program in the Second World War. But there’s virtually no record of it.
Alfred Loomis made millions on Wall Street, then went on to develop the technology that helped win WWII.
These are the men who visited what Albert Einstein called a “palace of science” — a lab where the greatest scientists from around the world came to work and exchange ideas.
It was one of the worst blizzards in American history, dumping four feet of snow and leaving hundreds dead.
Executive Producer Mark Samels on what's coming to American Experience in early 2018.
Filmmaker Robert Kenner talks about filming inside of a decomissioned Titan II Missile complex in order to recreate a harrowing event from 1980.
What did Boston look like in the early 1900s? And how much has it changed?
When all that stands between the world and nuclear disaster is the flip of a switch.
