History of Space Shuttle (2013)

This seven-part documentary series takes a look back at the evolution of the spacecraft, pinning the 1981 Columbia mission--in which the shuttle’s reliance on mission control was replaced with more autonomous means of interfacing--as the watershed moment in which the science, wonders, and possibilities of space exploration truly took flight. HISTORY OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE includes dazzling archival footage and photographs from every mission dating back to the 1960s.