DVDs and Streaming Video

1 disc (approx. 90 min.) Presents an account of the ill-fated Apollo 13 moon mission. Shows how the ground controllers had to solve the difficult problem of getting the astronauts James Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert back to Earth with limited air, water, and electricity. Includes interviews with the astronauts, their families, and the scientists who worked on the mission.

1 disc (116 min.) When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team ,including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.

Also available on AVON. (approx 120 min) A space-based vision of our planet. Produced in consultation with NASA scientists, this special takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustain life on earth.

1 disc (91 min.) Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left, and the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

Three female African-American mathematicians provide crucial calculations for NASA's space race against the Soviets, all while dealing with the racist and sexist assumptions of their white co-workers.

1 disc (102 min.) NASA: the first 25 years: The beginning -- Man in space -- Project Gemini -- Apollo 11 -- Observatory satellites -- Shuttle program. Moon landing.
Contains "Apollo 11 Moon Landing," about the voyage that first took astronauts to the moon; and "NASA: the First 25 Years," which chronicles the history of the organization from its beginnings through the early Space Shuttle missions.

(141 min.) After a bad storm blows across Mars, astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet, he must find a way to signal Earth and in the meantime survive on limited supplies.

Also available on AVON. (60 min.) On February 15th, car cameras and cellphones captured a blinding streak that flashed across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains, followed by an explosion that injured some 1,500 people. The meteor, weighing around 10,000 tons, was the largest object to burst in the atmosphere since 1908. Within days, Nova crews were in Russia following impact scientists as they hunted for debris from the explosion and clues to the meteor's origin.

1 disc (193 min.) The true story of Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton -- the seven men chosen for the Mercury Project manned space flight program in the U.S.

Widowed psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to a space station orbiting a water-dominated planet called Solaris to investigate the mysterious death of a doctor, as well as the mental problems plaguing the dwindling number of cosmonauts on the station.

(approx. 60 min.) Interweaves the heights of scientific achievement, the depths of a nation's cruelty, the private grief of a boy who came of age during the Holocaust, and the public mourning of many nations in the aftermath of the Columbia Shuttle disaster. Combining historical and ethical inquiry, the film reaches across faiths and nationalities to tell a truly human story.

14 discs (ca. 33 hr., 41 min.) Covers the Sun, Moon, Planets, Asteroids, Meteors, Colonizing Space & More.