Movies: Space travel

"Destination Moon" is the third in the trio of documentaries about the beginnings of the space age. It documents JPL's ambitious plan to beat the Soviet Union in robotic space exploration by reaching not only for the moon, but also the inner planets....

An animated interpretation of a rocket voyage to the moon demonstrates the scientific principles at play in theoretical space travel (such as gravity)....

The sun is dying. A few explorers set out into deep space in search of a new home for humanity....

A new father takes his wife and daughter on a journey to his mother’s birthplace in Scotland. It is 1976 – the year in which NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 space probes land on the surface of Mars. They send images of an only vaguely explored area from a grea...

A gangster decides to go on a trip to space and orders those under his 'protection' to cough up the amount....

A traveler reluctantly returns to Earth....

This film chronicles the meticulous preparation through blastoff. The Phoenix Mars Lander scheduled to land on the Martian surface on May 25, 2008. Once on the surface, scientists from around the world will gather to search for water in the form of i...

In front of television crews and thousands of spectators, Spaceship-1—commanded by Commodore Hardt, inventor of the powerful rocket fuel "Neotan-X"—blasts off on the first flight to the Moon....

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The story of Ham, a little chimpanzee who traveled through space for 18 minutes....