Bring the wonders of space exploration into your classroom.
📺 TV Shows
- Among the Stars (2021) - six episode Disney + series following astronaut Chris Cassidy before, during and after his third mission to space
- Astronaut Wives Club (2015) - ABC series adapted from the novel
- Away (2020, TV - 14) - Netflix fictional drama series about the first mission to Mars
- Challenger : The Final Flight (2020) - Netflix documentary series
- Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space (2021, TV-14) - Netflix documentary five episode series following the first all-civilian orbital mission to space fundraising for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- From the Earth to the Moon (1998, TV - 14) - HBO Miniseries - 12 (hour long) Episodes about the moon missions *Great to show clips in class
- Mars (2016, TV-PG) - National Geographic science fiction series about the first Martian landing
- The Right Stuff series (2020, TV - 14) - Disney + series fictionalized, but based on real events
- The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers - PBS Nova web series about the work and real lives of scientists and engineers
- Space Force (2020, TV- MA) - Netflix comedy series fictionalizing this US military branch
- When We Left Earth - The NASA Missions - Discovery Channel
📽️ Movies
- Apollo 13 (1995, PG, 2hr 20 mins)- adapted from the novel of the same name, later renamed to Lost Moon
- At Home in Space: The International Space Station at 20 (2021, 30 mins)- part of the STEM in 30 series presented by the National Air and Space Museum
- Challenger (1990, NR, 2hr40mins) - fictional recreation of the events that led up to the disaster
- Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes (2016, 48 mins) - National Geographic
- Chasing the Moon (2019, 5hrs 36 mins) - 3 parts (112 mins each)
- Chasing Pluto - A Historic Journey to the Edge of Our Solar System (2015, 60 mins) - PBS & Nova documentary about The New Horizons spacecraft
- Death Dive to Saturn (2017, 60 mins) - PBS & Nova documentary about Cassini's mission
- The Farthest: Voyager in Space (2017, NR, 1hr 37mins) - PBS documentary that tells the story of the Voyager missions
- Hidden Figures (2016, PG, 2hr 7mins)- adapted from the novel
- Into the Unknown: The James Webb Space Telescope (2019, NR, 38 mins) - documentary by the Northrup Grumman Foundation and filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn
- Last Man on the Moon (2014, TV-MA, 1 hr 35 mins) - chronicles the experience of astronaut Gene Cernan and his Apollo 17 mission in 1972, autobiography of the same title
- The Mars Generation (2017, 1hr 37 mins) - Available to stream on Netflix
- Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (2017, TV-PG, 1hr 41 mins)
- October Sky (1999, PG, 1hr 48 mins)
- The Real Right Stuff (2020, TV-14, 1hr 30mins) - National Geographic documentary to complement the Disney+ series
- Right Stuff (1983, PG, 3hrs 13mins)- adapted from the novel
- A Smile as Big As the Moon (2012, PG, 1 hr 35 mins) Hallmark movie based on the book
- Space Camp (1986, PG, 1hr 47mins) - high school kids go to Space Camp in Huntsville Alabama and due to miscommunication, end of flying the Space Shuttle
- Spare Parts (2015, PG-13, 1hr 54mins) - related to the novel
- Underwater Dreams (2014, NR, 1hr 26mins) - Mary Mazzio documentary about the Spare Parts story
- Woman in Motion (2021, NR, 1hr 45 mins) - documentary chronicling "Nichelle Nichols' daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation's best and brightest, including the trailblazing astronauts who became the first African American, Asian and Latino men and women to fly in space."
- The Wonderful : Stories from the Space Station (2021, TV-PG, 2hrs 6 mins)
- A Year in Space (2016, 58 mins) - available to stream on Netflix