NASA: A Retrospective

Astronauts documents the selection of the original seven Astronauts for the Mercury space program.

History of the first American orbital flight, Friendship 7, and Astronaut John Glenn.

Planning, science, and engineering behind the historic first moon landing.

Details of the historic first moon landing in 1969, with Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Edwin Aldrin.

Episode detailing the aborted Apollo 13 mission and the challenges which were overcome to bring the crew safely home.

Summary of historic accomplishments of the NASA space program from 1958 to 1973.

Episode narrated by Orson Wells detailing the unmanned NASA probes of the 1970s in search of life on other planets and beyond.

This episode follows the collaboration and execution by the US and USSR of the Apollo/Soyuz mission and the first international cooperation in space.

Episode detailing the Space Shuttle program and the initial flight of the shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981.