The story of the Apollo project, the American mission that first put humankind on the moon. Includes interviews with the Apollo designers, the Cape Canaveral ground crew, and the astronauts themselves.

Political pundits and military strategists discuss the role of technology in the Iraq War of 2003, focusing especially on the shortcomings of "networked weapons" in battling highly-mobile terrorists and guerilla insurgents.

The first of these two programs examines population growth trends throughout the world; the second program analyzes the impact the rapid growth of the Chinese economy is having on the environment.

When six members of a wealthy family in Long Island contract typhoid fever, George Soper does bacterial detective work which leads to a better understanding of communicable diseases and to the identification of Mary Mallon, the family cook, as the source of the infection. Mallon becomes known as "Typhoid Mary" and is banished to an island for the sake of the public's health.

"Seis días atrás, el astronauta Mark Watney se convirtió en uno de los primeros hombres en caminar por la superficie de Marte. Ahora está seguro de que será el primer hombre en morir allí. La tripulación de la nave en que viajaba se ve obligada a evacuar el planeta a causa de una tormenta de polvo, dejando atrás a Mark tras darlo por muerto. Pero él está vivo, y atrapado a millones de kilómetros de cualquier ser humano, sin posibilidad...