In December 2015, Major Tim Peake will become Britain's first man to live on the International Space Station. With exclusive access to his training, this BBC Horizon film finds out what it takes to become an astronaut. The film follows Tim as he meets with the engineers, physicists, and mechanics who will design and build the technology to take him into space and the medics and psychologists who will monitor his well-being once he's there. Featuring...

Starting just after World War II, using rockets intended to deliver nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union took an early lead in the space race. Led by Chief Designer Sergei Korolev and braving the risks of unproven technology, Soviet cosmonauts beat their American rivals to achieve a series of firsts: Sputnik, the first man in space, the first woman in space, and the first spacewalk.

An exploration of life in orbit. A day in a space station consists of 16 dawns and 16 dusks. However, unlike the cycle of the Earth, life in a space station is never so predictable. Utilizing unseen footage filmed by astronaut Jean-François Clervoy and interviews with astronauts and their psychologists, we discover what it's like to go to space. Combining the domestic with science, this revelatory film digs deep into the daily challenges astronauts...

On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to venture into space. While onboard the space shuttle Challenger, Ride acted as flight engineer, launched two communication satellites, operated the shuttle's mechanical arm, and conducted experiments. She returned to space again in 1984.

After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies.

A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible...

With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women, bred for intelligence and obedience, embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. But when they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends into chaos, they are consumed by fear, lust, and the insatiable hunger for power.

Following a catastrophe on Earth, the planet is covered in a toxic fog. The crew in the space station must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors, or stay safe in the station's algae symbiosis system.

The animated tale based on the true story of Belka and Strelka; two Russian dogs sent to space in 1960. A circus dog and a stray dog embark on an out-of-this-world adventure to become the world's most famous canine cosmonauts!

Includes film from the May 2009 mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as images captured by the telescope, and a series of scientifically realistic space flights based on Hubble data.