Employees repaint the NASA emblem on the Car Meeting Constructing on the Kennedy Area Middle on Might 28, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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NASA’s reside programming, together with rocket launches, spacewalks and views of Earth from house, will start streaming on Netflix this summer time.
NASA mentioned the transfer is a part of its effort to achieve a worldwide viewers, in accordance with a press release. The company famous that the content material will stay free and ad-free on the NASA app and web site, the place it already has reside programming.
NASA+ launched in 2023 as a approach to give the general public simpler entry to house content material.
“The Nationwide Aeronautics and Area Act of 1958 calls on us to share our story of house exploration with the broadest attainable viewers,” Rebecca Sirmons, basic supervisor of NASA+, mentioned within the launch.
NASA didn’t disclose monetary particulars of the deal.
The partnership comes as there was a surge in business rocket launches, led by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. SpaceX has had 81 launches within the first half of 2025, in accordance with Space Explored. It additionally continues to be the one U.S. firm with a spacecraft that is licensed to convey astronauts to the Worldwide Area Station.
In the meantime, NASA has been supporting missions in low-Earth orbit.
Shares of Netflix, which has greater than 700 million users, have been buying and selling at all-time highs. The streaming service is up nearly 51% because the starting of the 12 months.