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Ultra-resolution, smooth-motion, detail-enhanced, color-corrected, interpolated from the original 4 frames per second to 30 frames per second. This video plays real-time at the speed that Curiosity descended to the surface of Mars on August 6, 2012.

Relive the worldwide sensation of the Curiosity rover's historic landing on Mars with audiences across the country who watched the live events unfold.

On the anniversary of the first man on the moon, and with the final space shuttle mission set to end Thursday, Wired.com takes a look back at the extraordinary amount of training astronauts go through before they are mission ready.

On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union scored another in an impressive list of firsts when Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth. One month later, John Fitzgerald Kennedy set a new goal for his country : to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

The making of the movie "Apollo 13" and the history behind this amazing "successful failure" in space exploration.

The incredible story behind an image we've all seen hundreds of times, possibly the most reproduced photograph in history.

This clip is raw from Camera E-8 on the launch umbilical tower/mobile launch program of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969. The camera is running at 500 fps, making the total clip of over 8 minutes represent just 30 seconds of actual time.

Here are all the missions NASA has sent past Earth orbit, for which it now watches and waits for data. Some will be finished in a few years, others have been flying for nearly 40, slowly gathering data and beaming it back to Earth, or potentially waiting to be discovered by someone else out there.

This timeline represents the major milestones in space exploration, from the launch of Sputnik 1 to the first flight of NASA's next generation Ares I rocket.

Here is the speech William Safire drafted for President Nixon to read in case the Apollo 11 Astronauts became stranded on the moon! It is a wonderful piece of alternate universe American history, in which Nixon had to explain to a nation that Aldrin and Armstrong were going to die on the moon...