Venus once may have been as hospitable to life as Earth is now. Then something changed and Venus became shrouded in hot dense toxic clouds. There are now plans to send advanced probes to the surface of Venus and find out what happened to our twin.
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Elegant and graceful, the Lynx is one of Nature's finest physical specimens. Its primary quarry is the elusive Snowshoe Hare. This fascinating, unexplained phenomenon is only one of many mysteries in the Great North Woods.
Through the night, a ravenous predator stalks its unwary prey. With a swift bite to the skull, it slays the victim, then throws back its head and howls.
Intimately linked together are two birds -- the speedy Goshawk and the alert Ruffed Grouse. Many predators pursue the Grouse, but none is so well-adapted to catch it as the Goshawk.
Prey can become play, for this solitary hunter sometimes pesters its captured quarry to death. Easily confused with its cousin, the Lynx, the Bobcat flourishes in close proximity to humans.
Experts explain our history and evolution of Earth over its 4 billion year history and take us through to the current emergency where humans may be one of the species to become extinct.
We look closely at the search within our solar system, Mars, Titan and the ice moons. Speaking with experts in their fields of Mars robotic missions, Nuclear scientists probing the structure of ice on the distant moons.
Human needs have always created opportunities for human greed. And energy might be the most crucial need of all. Could we end up paying a subscription fee for sunlight?
Space is home to crucial resources, important discoveries, and big potential profit.
Asteroids, the debris from the early solar system hold tantalizing clues to planetary formation. The spacecraft Psyche readies to study a unique metallic asteroid. As Lucy is on its way to the trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit.
The ISS is the workhorse of the international spacefaring community, but its days are numbered. Replacement space stations are on the drawing board. However, with commercial interests these stations will add tourism and manufacturing to the mix.
Venus once may have been as hospitable to life as Earth is now. Then something changed and Venus became shrouded in hot dense toxic clouds. There are now plans to send advanced probes to the surface of Venus and find out what happened to our twin.
THE SHUTTLE PROGRAM - The first re-useable spacecraft. THE CHALLENGER DISASTER - Pressing launch schedules lead to carelessness and the loss of the Challenger. RETURN TO SPACE - A re-designed shuttle is back in space with a redefined role.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END - After the first Moon landing the Apollo science program was about to start in earnest but people were losing interest. APOLLO GETS COMPLICATED - New technology is added that extends the reach of the Apollo program.
TO THE MOON - The Apollo program achieves its major objective. DRAGON, FALCON AND SPACEX - New directions in re-usable spacecraft. GAIA - Mapping our galaxy in unprecedented detail.
BEYOND EARTH ORBIT - The Apollo program takes bold new steps. IXV RE-ENTRY VEHICLE - Europe is working to perfect a re-entry vehicle. GALILEO SATELLITES LOST AND FOUND - Navigation satellites go into incorrect orbit.
In this episode, we explore all the ways in which wars in space might be fought and who stands to make a pretty penny developing space-age weaponry.
To The Moon – From Dream To Reality looks back at the people and the technology of the Apollo era.
An uncompromising show of power, the military coup is an age-old method to violently and often secretly topple governments and take control by force. This episode goes behind the scenes of some of the greatest coups in recent history.
The remarkable story of how Stalin's massive war factories were dismantled and moved east on one and half million railway trucks, to avoid being lost to the Nazis.
The story of America's `Liberty Ships', which were produced in incredible numbers and became known as the Model T Fords of the ocean.
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