Space Age: NASA's Story

Dangerous Films for BBC

This series offers audiences a unique chance to glimpse an astronaut’s view of spaceflight. It is an epic story of heroes and their breath-taking successes as they further humanity’s innate desire to explore. Harnessing cutting-edge technology in the name of science, they seek to develop our understanding of space, of the Earth and of ourselves. This is the definitive guide to NASA and its incomparable highs and lows.

This series features hundreds of hours of forgotten material as well as original, first-generation negatives of more familiar footage. Intense training sessions, downtime in Cocoa Beach and the devastating power of the rocket launches, all look as fresh today as when they were filmed. The transferred footage reveals long-forgotten details of space walks, moonwalks, exaltation, and despair, as experienced by an elite cadre of test pilots, who laid their lives on the line for their country and for humanity.

All the while the narrative places itself within the broader context of NASA’s history. Blended within the footage are revealing, insightful interviews with those who were there; the astronauts, family members, behind the scenes staff and journalists. Personal stories add colour and depth to the science of orbital exploration, together presenting an edge-of-your-seat glimpse of life in space. 

This is an intelligent, inspiring and accessible series. It brings together Dangerous Films’ skills in producing populist factual documentaries together with a proven track record of making audience-grabbing television. Made by the award-winning team behind 9/11: THE TWIN TOWERS and DIANA: THE LAST DAYS OF A PRINCESS, Space-Age: NASA’s Story is an account of mankind’s greatest achievement. Only the astronauts themselves have been this close.