Plot Synopsis

THE AGE OF AEROSPACE, a series sponsored by Boeing, explores the advancements in civilian, military and space technology around some of America's greatest achievements in the aerospace industry. Plus, this series chronicles the history of aerospace company Boeing and its heritage companies. The series opener reveals how Bill Boeing, Donald Douglas, James McDonnell and their contemporaries took the invention of the airplane and forged an industry, delivering advancements in communication, transportation, and warfare. Then, the second episode details the role American industry and planes, including the B-29 Superfortress, North American P-51 Mustang and the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, played in the Allied victory over Germany and Japan. The series continues by exploring three planes that launched the jet age: the B-47 bomber, the Boeing 707 and the 747 Jumbo Jet, the world's first jumbo jet that reshaped global air travel. These three planes were made possible by secrets discovered in a German Forest at the close of WWII. In the penultimate episode, the series tells the story of Project Apollo, which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon, and humankind's first journey to the Moon on Apollo 8. And the series ends by revealing the technology, resources, and risk required to build commercial aircraft in the modern world through the story of the most recent revolution in jet design, the 787 Dreamliner.
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Season 2 of THE AGE OF AEROSPACE premiered on Friday, September 8, 2017 at 8pm ET/PT on Science Channel. In the season opener, "The First Space War," 60 years since the launch of Sputnik, satellites have become the invisible infrastructure that powers our modern world. But it wasn't until the 1991 Gulf War that the public came to recognize the transformative power of GPS and communications satellites.