Smithsonian Channel Air & Space Collection - Official NASA & Aviation Documentaries | Educational Space Exploration Films for Students & History Enthusiasts | Perfect for Classroom Learning & Home Entertainment

This package includes four Smithsonian documentaries. Two of these, both running about 90 minutes, are outstanding. One of these deals with the Concorde. A joint venture between France and England, and designed to carry passengers at supersonic speeds, this airplane was a technical and engineering marvel, but a commercial failure. The second deals with the space shuttle. It recognizes the scientific triumphs, which included building the international space station and launching the Hubble telescope, while also noting two disasters, the losses of Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003. The other two are essentially filler. One is a tedious recapitulation of the Smithsonian’s air and space artifacts. The other is a somewhat incoherent account of America’s first ten years in space, which brings together footage from diverse sources but does not integrate them into a useful narrative. These could have been omitted.