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The Best Episodes of NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3

Every episode of NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3!

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Dive into the mysteries of some of NASA’s most curious missions and explore stories of engineering achievement and human endurance. Each episode offers first hand testimony from astronauts, NASA mission footage, plus beautifully rendered CGI

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 Episode 6 - Curse of the Red Planet
    7.6/10(34 votes)

    S3:E6

    Three cosmonauts die mysteriously as they re-enter Earth's atmosphere. A declassified document reveals a CIA plan to use a space disaster as a cover to start war and a NASA rover discovers clues that help solve a murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 Episode 7 - Red Storm Rising
    7.5/10(30 votes)

    S3:E7

    Two astronauts trapped in the vacuum of space face an agonizing death; the first close up images of Pluto reveal an alien landscape, and residents of Houston struggle to explain videos of unidentified flying lights captured above their city at night.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 Episode 1 - Pluto Under Pressure
    7.1/10(32 votes)

    S3:E1

    Lost tapes reveal that Apollo astronauts heard unexplained transmissions on the far side of the moon, an amateur astronomer spots a strange disturbance in Martian atmosphere & an unidentified object in Earth orbit starts stalking Russian spacecraft.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 Episode 8 - Attack of the Thunderballs
    7.1/10(26 votes)

    S3:E8

    Astronauts are evacuated when a mystery object is discovered hurtling towards the ISS, a NASA secret agent goes undercover to recover missing moon rocks & scientists struggle to find answers when they find a huge void at the edge of the solar system.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 Episode 4 - Ghosts on a Comet
    7.0/10(27 votes)

    S3:E4

    When a Chinese moon rover breaks down, a NASA scientist points to a mysterious material that seemed to sabotage the Apollo missions, decades earlier. The Rosetta spacecraft finds a comet that appears to be singing.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 Episode 5 - The Moon that Disappeared
    7.0/10(28 votes)

    S3:E5

    Recently discovered documents reveal NASA's secret plan B for failure of the first moon landing, a Soyuz capsule carrying astronaut Peggy Whitson back to Earth vanishes without explanation and NASA’s Cassini mission unravels a three hundred year old.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 Episode 2 - Return of the Moon Bugs
    6.9/10(32 votes)

    S3:E2

    Apollo 12 astronauts bring back something alive from the moon and NASA track an asteroid heading towards Earth but make a shocking discovery: it’s not an asteroid, but an object that’s artificial in nature.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 Episode 3 - Rise of the Ice Creatures
    6.9/10(29 votes)

    S3:E3

    Neil Armstrong goes into an unexplained spin. He needs to figure out what’s causing it, or he faces certain death. An Apollo 17 photo seems to show a military outpost on the Moon & could there be alien life swimming in the oceans of Jupiter’s moons?

    Director:Unknown
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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Curse of the Red Planet" is the best rated episode of "NASA's Unexplained Files" season 3. It scored 7.6/10 based on 34 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/29/2016. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Red Storm Rising".