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Considered by many to be the most astounding machine ever built, this reusable spaceship is the apex of flight technology; the challenges and the critical issues that led to NASA's decision to create an "airplane" to navigate space.

The history of long-duration life in space from the first Soviet station to Skylab to Mir to the International Space Station; what it is like to live in space, as well as the monumental obstacles engineers and astronauts overcame to make it possible.

Operating in space's harsh environment, these technological marvels serve as the world's most precious cargo; a journey from a British sci-fi writer's futuristic visions to a German rocket designer's wartime creations.

At the height of the Cold War, the Strategic Air Command controls thousands of nuclear weapons, planes and missiles.

Examine Edwards Air Force Base's colorful history as America's premier flight test center for over 60 years; every Air Force aircraft was tested there, including current projects like the Airborne Laser designed to destroy ballistic missiles.

Men with machine guns cut down seven mobsters in 1929 Chicago.

Al Capone and a turf war triggered by American thirst for liquor turns into the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which was a bloody execution in a garage in downtown Chicago in 1929.

On Valentine's Day, 1929, Al Capone's thugs murder seven members of a rival gang.

Part 2/2. Crimes of a century ago inspire today's investigative tools.

A history of Chicago reveals vice dens, secret railroad lines, shipwrecks, and the spark that led to the atomic bomb.

Mobster Al Capone's meteoric rise coincides with the beginning of Prohibition and the no-holds-barred Roaring Twenties era in Chicago.

A 1930s crime spree gives rise to the creation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, when people like John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, and Bonnie and Clyde often had technological advantages over local police.

Men with machine guns cut down seven mobsters in 1929 Chicago.

Al Capone and a turf war triggered by American thirst for liquor turns into the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which was a bloody execution in a garage in downtown Chicago in 1929.

On Valentine's Day, 1929, Al Capone's thugs murder seven members of a rival gang.

Part 2/2. Crimes of a century ago inspire today's investigative tools.

A history of Chicago reveals vice dens, secret railroad lines, shipwrecks, and the spark that led to the atomic bomb.

Mobster Al Capone's meteoric rise coincides with the beginning of Prohibition and the no-holds-barred Roaring Twenties era in Chicago.

A 1930s crime spree gives rise to the creation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, when people like John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, and Bonnie and Clyde often had technological advantages over local police.

Men with machine guns cut down seven mobsters in 1929 Chicago.