NASA and space-race footage.
NASA and space-race footage. Streaming 24 hours a day, synchronized to the second across all viewers worldwide.
The following films and shorts broadcast on CH 84 T-MINUS:
After the launch of the Japanese warship Chitose in San Francisco, a pleasure yacht cruises past in the foreground. An 1898 Edison actuality.
The 16mm film shot by the Apollo 11 crew: the descent, the moonwalk seen from the lunar module window, and the trip back up.
Astronaut Don Pettit shows how liquid flows in microgravity, from his Saturday Morning Science demos aboard the Space Station.
Formal guests and German naval sailors gather before the launch of Kaiser Wilhelm's yacht Meteor. A 1902 shipyard ceremony.
Scott Crossfield drops from a bomb bay into the cockpit of the Skyrocket, straps in and gets the hatch closed. 28 seconds of test-pilot ritual.
A short NASA explainer on how the scientific method works.
The Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser Chitose slides down the ways at a San Francisco shipyard on January 22, 1898.
February 1958: night launch from Cape Canaveral of Explorer, America's first satellite, with von Braun and Van Allen at the press conference.
A NASA Kids Science News segment on how astronauts' bodies change in space, from body fluids and bones to the heart and muscles.
A Pacific Coast life-saving crew shows how a lifeboat is launched. A real demonstration of the work, 1897.
Universal's look back at 1961: crisis after crisis, from Cuba to the space race. A newsreel year-in-review released in January 1962.
A NASA Sci Files segment outlining the body's systems, including the lungs, the heart and digestion.
A crew of seven in cork jackets pushes a surf boat into the waves, climbs aboard and rows out to a wreck.
Jackie Kennedy christens the Polaris submarine Lafayette, and more news from May 1962. A Universal Newsreel with the original release sheet details.
A NASA Sci Files segment on the building blocks of the body, from cells and tissues to organs and systems.
The battleship Kentucky slides into the James River at Newport News, Virginia, in 1898.
Kennedy tours Huntsville, Cape Canaveral and Houston and calls for U.S. leadership in space. A Universal Newsreel from September 1962, with fashion.
One installment of the NASA eClips video series. The source gives no details beyond that.
After a storm washes boats into the streets, boatmen band together to get a stranded schooner back in the water.
A NASA ultra high definition reel opens with a 4K look at a fizzing tablet dissolving in a floating ball of water on the space station.
The cruiser Chitose again, this time nearly head-on, with rowboats crowding the foreground.
How do clouds form, and why does NASA care? A short lesson on precipitation and how students can report cloud sightings.
A classroom-friendly look at radio waves and the giant Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, and how NASA uses radio light to study the universe.
Going green? NASA eClips explains why it matters for Earth and how you can help, plus the ARES vehicle headed to Mars.
Where does space foam end up? Polyimide foam, a NASA invention, insulates ships and hushes airplanes. Fireproof, too.
How is the International Space Station built across borders? Plus a simple scale model that shows how Earth, the moon and low orbit fit together.
How do you drive on the moon? NASA's Lunar Electric Rover tackles pressurization, moon dust and getting around.
Not your typical NASA program: NASA 360 shows how space and aeronautics technology helps people on Earth.
NASA 360 asks what NASA has done for you lately, and finds space technology all over everyday life.
How NASA technology turns up around your own house. NASA 360 goes home improvement.
NASA racing tech makes IndyCar and NASCAR safer for drivers, plus a look at NASA's new inflatable structures.
NASA 360, a thirty-minute magazine-style show on real-world uses of science, technology, engineering and math.
A NASA eClips tour of the optical telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, and why astronomers love its thin air.
Onboard 16mm film from Apollo 15, including views from the Lunar Roving Vehicle's camera and a mass spectrometer boom.
A NASA Why Files segment tracing the history of electricity with the help of Dr. Textbook.
NASA 360 tests lunar gear, from the Chariot truck to the six-legged ATHLETE and the Scarab rover.
What is gravity? A classroom explainer on gravity and inertia keeping the space station in orbit, and why astronauts float.
NASA scientists and beekeepers team up on a citizen science project, as honeybees pollinate over 130 US crops and bee numbers decline.
Every snowflake is a record of the atmosphere it fell through. Learn how to help NASA scientists study snow and climate.
How plants turn light into food, and how NASA uses LED lights to grow them in space. Build your own growth chamber.
A NASA eClips video series entry. The source gives only the series name, so we can't say more than that.
NASA 360 goes to the desert for Desert RATS and other analog testing of future space gear.
Inside NASA Langley's wind tunnels, where engineers study air flowing around objects at different speeds.
A 17-second look at the AD-1, a NASA research plane with a wing that pivots sideways. Two air-to-air views of an odd bird.
Aerosols, from nature or human activity, change how clouds form. A satellite look at tiny particles and big skies.
A computer simulation of how Amazon deforestation affects surface temperature and rainfall, in six animations.
The Sequoia forest fire spreads through the American West in July 2000, in a satellite animation.
A narrated flight over Antarctica as seen by RADARSAT. Satellite radar turns the frozen continent into a computer animation.
Scenic nature views around Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, in NASA footage.
The slow carbon cycle: phytoplankton absorbs carbon dioxide from the air and the ocean carries it down.
Astronaut Chris Cassidy's return to Ellington Field in Houston on October 22, 2020, as NASA footage shows it.
Cityscapes and traffic in time-lapse, including a 24-hour look at a city. Shot to support NASA's Glory mission.
NASA's Commercial Crew Program holds a Crew-1 news conference in September 2020. Press briefing footage from a new era of human spaceflight.
Satellite eyes watch Rondonia, Brazil, lose its forest from 1975 to 2001. Green fades into a spreading pattern of cleared land.
NASA's 1998 look at Earth as one connected system, with atmosphere, oceans, land and life seen from space.
Time-lapse views from NASA's Expedition 70 aboard the space station.
A flyby of the Galapagos Islands, rising from the sea floor at the heart of the equatorial current system.
A year of global rainfall, 2004, mapped every three hours by NASA's TRMM satellite.
A year of global rainfall, 2005, mapped every three hours by NASA's TRMM satellite.
NASA's GOES-O spacecraft gets a thermal blanket inspection, then rotates to vertical at Kennedy Space Center.
Satellite imagery shows the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic as a line between bare hills and forest.
What happens to bees and blooms if spring arrives early? Two NASA animations on honey bees, flowering plants and a warming climate.
Students build their own comet models from craft materials. A hands-on NASA how-to.
Rain piles up as Hurricane Isabel moves in, September 6 to 20, 2003, as measured by NASA's TRMM satellite.
Hurricane Isabel barrels toward the US East Coast on September 15, 2003, with winds of 150 mph.
Hurricane Isabel batters North Carolina on September 18, 2003, with 105 mph winds.
Hurricane Isabel prepares to make landfall in North Carolina on September 17, 2003, with 115 mph winds.
Hurricane Isidore on September 19, 2002, with 80 mph winds and heavy rain over Cuba. A zoom shows the storm's rain structure.
Rain piles up as Hurricane Katrina moves in, August 23 to 30, 2005, as measured by NASA's TRMM satellite.
Rain piles up as Hurricane Katrina moves in, August 23 to 30, 2005, as measured by NASA's TRMM satellite.
A cold trail of ocean water marks Hurricane Katrina's path, August 23 to 30, 2005. A variant cut of the NASA visualization.
Rain piles up as Hurricane Rita moves in, September 18 to 25, 2005, as measured by NASA's TRMM satellite.
Rain piles up as Hurricane Wilma moves in, October 15 to 25, 2005, as measured by NASA's TRMM satellite.
A videotape tour of the Solar System and outer space, built from NASA scientific visualizations. From the Sun outward.
A NASA flyover of New Guinea and Indonesia, ending over the Indian Ocean. One of a series made for the Learning Channel.
A NASA briefing giving an overview of the Commercial Crew Program, which sends astronauts to the space station on commercial vehicles.
A NASA briefing on the Crew-1 mission, part of the Commercial Crew Program's work flying astronauts to the space station.
NASA footage tied to Northrop Grumman's 23rd commercial resupply mission to the space station, with a rendezvous in the title.
NASA footage tied to Northrop Grumman's 23rd commercial resupply mission to the space station, with a rendezvous in the title.
NASA explains what its Commercial Crew Program is all about. A subtitle file for a program overview reel, not the picture itself.
NASA's Demo-2 crew departs Ellington Field in Houston.
NASA's Demo-2 crew returns to Ellington Field in Houston.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station take questions from Fairview High School students. Homework help from orbit.
First imagery from NASA's Orion, as a time-lapse and the original footage, November 2022.
Astronaut Frank Rubio on space kitchen life, in Spanish. NASA's Johnson Space Center, 2023.
The Moon's shadow sweeps from India across Asia in NASA's visualization of the long total solar eclipse of July 22, 2009.
NASA footage of astronaut Fred Gregory at Ellington Field.
More NASA footage of astronaut Fred Gregory at Ellington Field.
A flyover of Pine Island Glacier on a Landsat mosaic of Antarctica, the continent's fastest moving glacier.
How satellites help farmers track the water their crops drink. Landsat maps agricultural water use so every drop counts.
A 30-year ocean model of North Atlantic current velocity, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The ocean's conveyor belt carries warm tropical Atlantic water poleward, shaping climate along the way. NASA animation.
A computer flyby of the Pacific Ocean, made for the Smithsonian's Ocean Planet traveling exhibition. Final version.
Satellite views of the Olympic Peninsula dissolve through the years, with park boundaries drawn on. Watch the forest and clear-cuts change.
MISR satellite images show the Pine Island iceberg forming as the glacier flows seaward from a growing crack.
The main section of NASA's Recipe for a Hurricane. Clouds and isosurfaces show Hurricane Erin on September 10, 2001.
NASA's Stennis Space Center fires the Aerojet AJ26 engine for ten seconds, the one meant to power the first stage of Taurus II. Loud and bright.
A slow, looping tour around a model of solar coronal loops, built from SOHO magnetogram data.
NASA's Fermi telescope maps the night sky and finds nearly 600 mystery sources. Could they be dark matter?
SeaWiFS watches phytoplankton around the Galapagos before and during El Nino. Warm water arrives, and the blooms change.
Soot heats the air and cuts the sunlight reaching the ground. NASA animates how that can change rainfall.
NASA flight-test footage of the YF-12 Blackbird, the experimental interceptor cousin of the SR-71, taking off and cruising. Pure speed, no popcorn required.
Time-lapse of a J-2X rocket engine being assembled at NASA's Stennis Space Center.
A 3-D visualization takes you through the stars and glowing gas of the star-forming region Sharpless 2-106.
Microwaves seen by NASA's TRMM satellite show ice and water inside Hurricane Katrina, horizontal polarization.
Microwaves seen by NASA's TRMM satellite show ice and water inside Hurricane Katrina, vertical polarization.
A swath of microwave brightness from NASA's TRMM satellite across Hurricane Katrina, horizontal polarization.
A swath of microwave brightness from NASA's TRMM satellite across Hurricane Katrina, vertical polarization.
Tropical Cyclone Zoe slams South Pacific islands on December 29, 2002, with winds above 186 mph. NASA zooms in on the storm.
Tropical Depression 14 heads toward Cuba on October 15, 2002, losing strength. NASA zooms in to show its rain structure.
Cities run 1 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than their surroundings. NASA animates how that heat changes rain around coastal cities.
A coronal mass ejection sweeps past Voyager, far beyond Pluto. Solar wind meets a lonely spacecraft.
A NASA simulation shows the wakes of two closely spaced aircraft interacting in the air behind them.
For Voyager's 30th anniversary, see all four planets it studied in the night sky in September 2007.