NASA To Stream Rocket Launches and Spacewalks On Netflix

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: NASA is coming to Netflix. No, not a drama or sci-fi reboot. The space agency is actually bringing real rocket launches, astronaut spacewalks, and even views of Earth from space directly to your favorite streaming service. Starting this summer, NASA+ will be available on Netflix, giving the space-curious a front-row seat to live mission coverage and other programming.

The space agency is hoping this move helps it connect with a much bigger audience, and considering Netflix reaches over 700 million people, that's not a stretch. This partnership is about accessibility. NASA already offers NASA+ for free, without ads, through its app and website. But now it's going where the eyeballs are. If people won't come to the space agency, the space agency will come to them.

I predicted this 30 years ago

[Big Hairy Gorilla]

I even said "Netflix".

Re:I predicted this 30 years ago

[hambone142]

"Television" as we know it is going the way of A.M. radio.
Nearly obsolete.

Won't anybody think of the Vision Pro users?

[sweet 'n sour]

... who still don't have the Netflix app available to them?

Nice

[Slashythenkilly]

I guess those of us non -netflix subscribers who dont want to pay to see where our tax dollars are going to be shit out of luck. Sorry, boys and girls, NASA needs $.

Re: Nice

[sysrammer]

I suspect that this is simply another feed. Their other feeds such as cable channels and websites will still be available.

I watch the channel occasionally. Unfortunately the feed from my provider never matches the index, but it makes for great background noise.

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[anoncoward69]

Hopefully this is the case. Otherwise they should just be streaming off something like youtube which just about every smart tv has an app for and is free for all to use to view.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I guess you've never visited NASA.gov or NASA's channel on YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/@NASA [youtube.com]

This isn't about locking in a single vendor like the Olympics or Tour de France, this is about expanding their audience at almost no additional cost to NASA.

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[nightflameauto]

I guess those of us non -netflix subscribers who dont want to pay to see where our tax dollars are going to be shit out of luck. Sorry, boys and girls, NASA needs $.

Even the summary said the free version isn't going away. It's available via their website, and most of it's also available on Youtube. They're just adding the Netflix feeds for eyeballs.

plus ça change–

[Gilmoure]

We had NASA tv back in the mid-90s, on cable.

Cheap CDN

[nevermindme]

This is yet another cheap Content Distribution Network for NASA, that also shows the way for any other publicly funded stream. YOUTUBE, NETFLIX has made investments to get storage and real time multicasting (in broadcast TV terms) into you internet providers headend, where you are paying the freight for packets to your unicast home endpoint. If the department of education survives, perhaps this is something they can partner with, and have rich(media) public school curriculum available for snow days na