For early aviators, conquering the forces of gravity was a daunting challenge. But black aviators had an additional challenge - conquering the forces of racism. Meet the men and women who took to the skies throughout the 20th century, proving to a segregated nation that skin color doesn't determine skill level.

It's the dawn of the golden age of aviation on planet Prester, and retro-futuristic sky vehicles known as vanships dominate the horizon. Claus Valca - a flyboy born with the right stuff - and his fiery navigator Lavie are fearless racers obsessed with becoming the first sky couriers to cross the Grand Stream in a vanship. But when the high-flying duo encounters a mysterious girl named Alvis, they are thrust into the middle of an endless battle between...

An Aviation City -- It's a ciiy-within-a-citi that exists for only one brief week each year. Its inhabitants: a half-million pilots, builders, restorers, and enthusiasts. It features the world's greatest and most diverse collection of homebuilt, vintage, ultralight, aerobatic, and warbird aircraft on the gound and in the sky. Welcome to Oshkosh.

Strap yourself into the cockpit and fly along with daring U.S. airmen as they attempt the impossible and change the course of aviation history. Today, few know about the first flight around the world or the men who flew it, though it remains one of aviation's most important milestones. Three years before Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, eight U.S. aviators boarded four Douglas World Cruisers in a race with five other countries to complete the first...

Follows the history of the aerial assault vehicle from the creation of the aeroplane to its militarization during World War I and the Russian Revolution. Viewers learn that it was the Spanish Civil War that served as the testing ground for the German airplanes of the Third Reich in the lead-up to the Second World War, and more.

Richard Collins discusses various aspects of instrument flying. IFR strategies teaches how to develop your own IFR strategies and tactics so you can manage the dynamic IFR environment. Non-precision approaches teaches how to plan ahead for step-downs, dog-legs, equipment requirements and more. ILS approaches looks at factors which affect ILS approaches, headwinds, tailwinds, visibility, on-board equipment, flying techniques and more. Instrument proficiency...

Examines significant steps in military aviation, from the Wright Brothers through jet engines and the Stealth aircraft.

NASA launches a Mars Recovery Mission to investigate and bring back survivors from the first manned mission to Mars which has mysteriously disappeared.

It is a mission that might prove impossible. In the fall of 2020, a NASA spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx attempts to reach out and grab a piece of an asteroid named Bennu and bring it back to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx team has just three chances to extend its spacecraft's specialized arm, touch down for five seconds, and collect material from the surface of Bennu. Can they pull it off? NOVA takes you inside the mission as the team plans its approach.

Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where two American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.