NASA introduced Monday its social platforms plans to staff up with a streaming service to convey house just a little nearer to house. Beginning this summer time, NASA+ reside programming will likely be accessible on Netflix.
Audiences now could have one other choice to stream rocket launches, astronaut spacewalks, mission protection, and breathtaking reside views of Earth from the Worldwide Area Station.
“The Nationwide Aeronautics and Area Act of 1958 calls on us to share our story of house exploration with the broadest potential viewers,” mentioned Rebecca Sirmons, common supervisor of NASA+ on the company’s headquarters in Washington. “Collectively, we’re dedicated to a Golden Age of Innovation and Exploration – inspiring new generations – proper from the consolation of their sofa or within the palm of their hand from their telephone.”
By way of this partnership, NASA’s work in science and exploration will turn out to be much more accessible, permitting the company to extend engagement with and encourage a world viewers in a contemporary media panorama, the place Netflix reaches a world viewers of greater than 700 million folks.
The company’s broader efforts embody connecting with as many individuals as potential by video, audio, social media, and reside occasions. The objective is straightforward: to convey the joy of the company’s discoveries, innovations, and house exploration to folks, wherever they’re.
NASA+ stays accessible free of charge, with no advertisements, by the NASA app and on the company’s website.
Extra programming particulars and schedules will likely be introduced forward of launch.
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Cheryl Warner
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov