Little Mammoth Wins Big Award Little Mammoth Wins Big Award Little Mammoth Media's children's video program, THE BIG SPACE SHUTTLE, was awarded the 1999 Platinum Award from the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, as one of the Best Children's Videos of the Year. The video was featured on NBC's TODAY Show in New York to announce the award. THE BIG SPACE SHUTTLE is one of thirteen episodes in the award-winning BIG Adventure SeriesÆ.

THE BIG SPACE SHUTTLE is a live-action adventure that takes kids behind the scenes to see a space shuttle assembled, watch astronauts train for a mission, and follow a mission from launch to landing. They meet the crew of the space shuttle Columbia, including Pilot Susan Still, and hear of their childhood dreams to become astronauts. They also get to visit a space camp for kids and experience being an astronaut. The program was filmed on location at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at Mission Control in Houston, and at the Very Large Array telescopes in the middle of the New Mexico desert.