Seen from a spacecraft, the earth looks blue.

Twenty years ago the spacecraft Belerephon landed here...

We fold it, and we transport it in a spacecraft.

It's... it's just over here. Is this where you saw the spacecraft?

It was taken by this thing, which is called the Voyager spacecraft.

We had four spacecraft, two around Mars, two on the surface an amazing accomplishment.

If it existed, it would change all future spacecraft design and space mission planning.

I said it was not indigenous. It was a derelict spacecraft, an alien ship.

So we have a spacecraft which is heading towards Mars, called Phoenix, and that spacecraft will land 17 days, seven hours and 20 seconds from now, so you can adjust your watch.

And saints don't come in spacecraft, do they? (car engine starts) (two gunshots) (glass shattering)

This is a map that shows where we've put our spacecraft on the surface of Mars.

It's part of the spacecraft that's in orbit around the Sun that's rendezvoused with two planets.

Three weeks ago, the American spacecraft, Discovery One left on its halfbillion mile voyage to Jupiter.

You write a program to take the damaged spacecraft around the moon and bring it home safely.

I've even seen the starships, lightships, spacecraft whatever you choose to call them in the skies myself.

EB Now the spacecraft actually has to decide when it's going to get rid of its parachute.

So it's pretty busy up here with spacecraft coming and going and people flying in, flying out.

We have to build large amounts of autonomy into the spacecraft so that it can land itself safely.

The right answer, confirmed by the Soviet Venera spacecraft, was that Venus was very hot 900 degrees Fahrenheit.

A nearby thunderstorm, there was a lightning bolt that went over and hit the very tip of the spacecraft.

I always wanted to just fly around the solar system and visit different planets and visit moons and spacecraft.

NASA's dead, that the space shuttles stopped flying and all of the sudden there's no more spacecraft out there.

Well, a lot of what NASA does is robotic exploration, and we have a lot of spacecraft out there.

Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Pioneer 11 and Pioneer 10, the first four spacecraft to have left the solar system.

So it will be a very tense moment, you know, as we are watching that spacecraft landing on another planet.

The problem is we don't fly it to Mars, we put it in a spacecraft and we send it to Mars.

Do you remember when Carl Sagan turned the Voyager spacecraft back towards the Earth, in 1990 after it just passed Saturn?

In the days of Gemini, you never knew for sure where a spacecraft might land if there was an emergency, deorbit.

The charge went down through the spacecraft, through the booster, down the exhaust gases, and grounded out on the launching pad.

This is a launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is the spacecraft taking nine months to get to Mars.

It took seven minutes for our words to reach the giant spacecraft but this time delay has been edited from this recording.

And, you know, it goes different directions from the front of the spacecraft all the way back to the Russian segment back there.

He slept so well, he didn't fall out of the tree, not even when he dreamed he was back on the spacecraft. Aaron's dad

If you send a spacecraft to the moon, you will need to analyse the situation to find out what resources are necessary for your expedition.

And just to kind of put us in perspective, this is a picture of Saturn taken with a spacecraft from behind Saturn, looking towards the Sun.

And next month, the Kepler Spacecraft will launch and will begin to tell us just how frequent Earth like planets are, the targets for SETl's searches.

I predict, also, that the investment that will flow into this will be somewhere around half of what the U.S. taxpayer spends for NASA's manned spacecraft work.

Friction really starts to build up on the spacecraft, and we use the friction when it's flying through the atmosphere to our advantage to slow us down.

And in those 50 years, not only did we literally, physically set foot on the moon, but we have dispatched robotic spacecraft to all the planets all eight of them and we have landed on asteroids, we have rendezvoused with comets, and, at this point in time, we have a spacecraft on its way to Pluto, the body formerly known as a planet.

Well, my next job was to be on the support crew of Apollo 8, and Apollo 8 was the spacecraft that flew to the moon and came back but did not land.

Eric Nyquist, had put a series of displays, far out displays, you know, in our what we call mission design or spacecraft design room, just to get people to think wildly about things.

We learn about how that spacecraft works, and so the training is pretty extensive on skills base, so we can be able to do all that plumbing, electrical stuff, water stuff, science stuff.

I'm talking about the solar system, the stuff that's within reach for spacecraft and within reach of our earthbound telescopes most of the real estate is very cold and very far from the Sun.

And the cool thing is, we actually created 3D models for a number of these spacecraft, so if you want to visit any of these, all you need to do is double click on them.

If you look very hard here you can see the signal from the Voyager 1 spacecraft, the most distant human object in the universe, 106 times as far away from us as the sun is.