In the first program of a three-part miniseries on the Soviet space program, NOVA profiles the mysterious genius behind the world's first satellite, the first man to orbit the earth and other early Russian triumphs in space.
Aired: Jan 8, 1991 NOVA returns to Mount St. Helens a decade after its cataclysmic eruption to l...
Aired: Apr 30, 1991 An experiment that could mean limitless supplies of energy sets the scientifi...
3. The Chip vs. the Chessmaster
Aired: Feb 5, 1991A look at the event where the world champion in chess, Kasparov, played again...
4. The Hunt for China's Dinosaurs (1)
Aired: Feb 12, 1991Are dinosaurs still among us? NOVA looks at the contentious question of wheth...
5. Case of the Flying Dinosaur (2)
Aired: Feb 19, 1991Tyrannosaurus rex, the terrifying kind of the dinos, recently turned up in a ...
Aired: Feb 26, 1991 In the first program of a three-part miniseries on the Soviet space program, ...
7. Russian Right Stuff: The Invisible Spaceman
Aired: Feb 27, 1991NOVA reveals the details of Moscow's secret plan to reach the moon ahead of t...
8. Russian Right Stuff: The Dark Side of the Moon
Aired: Feb 28, 1991In an unprecedented insider's look, NOVA covers the training, flight and reco...
9. Russian Right Stuff: The Mission
Aired: Mar 5, 1991Gregory Peck narrates a scientific voyage around Vancouver Island in search o...
Aired: Mar 26, 1991 Will machines be able to beat us at our own game? The computer chess champ ma...
11. So You Want to Be a Doctor?
Aired: Oct 1, 1991NOVA covers the causes and attempted cures of baldness. Some men take pride i...
12. Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Aired: Oct 9, 1991In a two-hour special, NOVA follows seven aspiring doctors through four years...
13. Suicide Mission to Chernobyl
Aired: Oct 15, 1991The sarcophagus is the giant structure that contains the nuclear reactor that...
Aired: Oct 22, 1991 NOVA accompanies Soviet scientists on a deadly mission inside the sarcophagus...
Aired: Nov 5, 1991 The tallest mountain in the world? Think again—cartographers had to when sate...
16. Avoiding the Surgeon's Knife
Aired: Nov 12, 1991The fastest machines in the sky are going to be slow stuff when the latest sp...
17. Skyscraper! A NOVA Special
Aired: Dec 3, 1991NOVA follows the efforts of four participants in a celebrated California stud...
Aired: Dec 10, 1991 This 80-minute NOVA pledge special chronicles the building of the Worldwide P...
19. Russian Right Stuff: The Mission
Aired: Dec 17, 1991The spectacular eclipse of 1991 passed over major observatories on the island...
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