Your Netflix just got a free NASA upgrade - beaming spacewalks straight to your living room

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For respective years now, NASA has softly had its ain escaped streaming service wherever you could ticker unrecorded rocket launches, spacewalks, and different space-related content.

The abstraction agency's contented is astir to get a small much accessible, arsenic NASA+ is teaming up with Netflix.

In an announcement Monday, NASA said that its unrecorded contented volition besides beryllium disposable connected Netflix starting this summer. This includes launches, ngo updates, unrecorded views of Earth from the International Space Station, documentaries, and more. The further contented won't summation the terms of a Netflix subscription, which presently starts astatine $7.99 per period for the basal program with ads. 

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The extremity of this concern is to marque NASA's enactment successful science and exploration disposable to a wider audience, "allowing the bureau to summation engagement with and animate a planetary assemblage successful a modern media landscape, wherever Netflix reaches a planetary assemblage of much than 700 cardinal people," the announcement said.

Rebecca Sirmons, wide manager of NASA+, echoed this sentiment, adding successful a statement, "The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 calls connected america to stock our communicative of abstraction exploration with the broadest imaginable audience. Together, we're committed to a Golden Age of Innovation and Exploration – inspiring caller generations – close from the comfortableness of their sofa oregon successful the thenar of their manus from their phone."

NASA launched a akin partnership with Prime Video successful May.

Netflix's task into unrecorded programming has been rocky, arsenic it had issues with some the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing lawsuit and Christmas Day NFL games. Given that it's not producing the NASA content, it tin hopefully debar those hiccups. 

If you don't person Netflix, each of NASA's contented is inactive escaped connected the NASA website and the NASA app, which is disposable for iOS, Android, Apple TV, Google/Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Roku.

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