This documentary goes well with a glass of wine and a comfy couch. Watch late at night.

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In 1961 JFK predicted that there would be a man on the moon before 1970. No one really believed him, but it happened (unless you believe that it did not! – well, then it still happened!). In 1970 it was predicted that America would put a man on Mars by 1980. Nobody thought that it wouldn’t happen – by 1990, or 2000, or 2010. Now, in 2012 we must ask ourselves: CAN WE MAKE IT TO MARS? Many questions present themselves. First, it would take three years to go to Mars and back: far longer than a trip to the moon. Second, there is a very real risk of meteors.  Will we ever put a man on Mars? Or, is it just too expensive? Do we have what it takes/

Watch Can We Make It to Mars? on PBS. See more from NOVA scienceNOW.

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The great space race to put a man on the moon. It was first proposed by President John F. Kennedy, who predicted that by the end of the 1960′s, man will have gone to the moon. Further, that it would be an American who first stepped foot on the moon.

It was a bold promise – perhaps a challenge, as there was much more at stake than bragging rights. The United States, as we remember, was deep in a political struggled with the U.S.S.R for world dominance. It was a battle of communism and capitalism.  While the citizens wondered innocently about who would fly their flag on the moon, the USSR and USA were running secret programs to have spying satellites, military missiles, and more aimed at the other country!

At the time, the world didn’t know how dangerously close nuclear war became on several occasions. Frankly, I think  it is a miracle we survived. This NOVA effort shows us just how lucky we are – and how close we came to Star Wars.

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Ten rockets will be needed to carry the equipment towards the mothership stationed in space. The crew will likewise also journey to there, where everything will be grouped and assembled. The task is an ambitious one, albeit slowly coming into a reality.

The journey to Mars will take 56 million kilometers or roughly three years and the crew and engineers have only one chance to get it all right, as lives are greatly at stake here.

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The greatest minds in the world have always wondered about gravity and have presumed that most anything stemmed from it — from the Big, Bang Theory, to how life force exists on earth, through the different distruptions in the cosmos.

“What On Earth Is Wrong With Gravity?” is presented by Dr. Brian Cox and takes the viewers in a different kind of level or understanding about how we perceive gravity.

Over the years, thanks to assumptions and approximations by well-known geniuses like Newton and Einstein, we have tried to explore how gravity works with inventions like the GPS system, and with innovations and explorations like flying to the moon.

Cox helps us explore why the world is the way it is and how much gravity everything, our life force, is supported by it. He takes us on a road trip across the USA to find all the answers.

Will he be able to present something new? Watch the documentary and find out what Brian Cox’s conclusions are based on these theories.

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Canada’s legendary scientist, Dr. David Suzuki hosts and narrates this Discovery Channel journey through the depths of the human mind.

Enjoy!

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I just added two religion/history based documentaries and many of us need to clean our pallet and finish the meal with some hard science.
Today, we humbly bring you THE UNIVERSE – Edge of Space. It’s one of the better documentaries ever produced by The History Channel and it will delight – both visually land cognitively, I guarantee.
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I recently applied for the opportunity to post up some films on this site, and the admin of documentary-log has kindly issued me with that privilege. So here is my first for you – Apollo Zero. While this film won’t give you a definitive yes or no answer to the question “have we been to the moon?”, it does raise some fresh ideas which i hadn’t considered before. For example, did you know that the furthest manned mission into space (other than the apollo missions) took its astronauts only 400 miles from Earth, while the Moon sits 240,000 miles away? There’s a big difference between those 2 distances, and i wonder a bit why no other country, or America since, has claimed to have even come close to sending its people further into space than it is claimed we went in the Sixties.  I’m not convinced as to whether or not we went to the Moon, but this film got me thinking again. See for yourself and make your own judgements.

mark m

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This series is a joint production by a team that included British, American and Russian players.

Episode Four deals with the quest for the the first moon landing and in this matter, it was the Americans who had the upperhand when Project Gemini was in place. But with so many failed missions, it took years for the NASA to actually achieve one of the greatest moments in mankind’s history — the moon landings. Russia on the other hand have been embroiled in an internal strife with the space programs, inspite of pushing forward with their missions. Here is an account of both nation’s success and failures in the race to have the first man actually walk on the moon.

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