NASA is launching a streaming service and best of all: it’s free

While the International Space Station was orbiting 271 miles above the South Pacific Ocean, NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 flight engineer Josh Cassada captured this photo of the Nauga Multipurpose Laboratory Module, the Brichel Docking Module and the Soyuz crew spacecraft. MSwalk-22. .

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This Wednesday (November 8), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, for its English acronym) released NASA+Your new service Streaming Millions of people around the world can access new content about the work being done by one of the most important space agencies on the planet. (can read: For the first time they observe a virus linked to another virus)

In this new service, ad-free, family-friendly and free, people can access the agency’s live coverage and original videos of NASA-launched missions. This Wednesday, the first episodes of the three series produced by the space agency will be released.

According to Nicky Fox, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA+, the solar system can be seen “from exoplanet research to better understand Earth’s climate and the Sun’s influence on our planet.” , our new science and flagship websites.” (You may also be interested in: Thousands of bronze coins dating back to the 4th century have been found in Italian seas)

NASA+ is also expected to be available through the NASA app, which can be downloaded on iOS or Android devices. The new service can also be accessed through media players like Rokku and Apple TV.

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Mark Edkind of NASA’s Office of Communications explained what the agency was looking for with the site a few months ago: “Transforming our digital presence will help us better tell the stories of how NASA explores the unknown in the air and in space. Inspires by discovery, and innovates for the benefit of mankind. (You may also read: This is how they found the fossil of one of South America’s oldest hunter-gatherers in Colombia)

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On Nasa+ you can find collages, podcasts, videos, digital books, games and a bank of sounds and ringtones for your cell phone.

First three series published by NASA

Hand in hand with the initiation Streaming, the premiere of the first three series of the space agency is also coming. The first will tell of the mission of scientists and engineers to collect the “first asteroid sample collected in space” and return it to the United States. (You may also be interested in: China grew lettuce and tomatoes on the space station)

NASA Explorers’ oh NASA researchers, The “exciting journey of OSIRIS-REx”, a mission launched in September 2016 and aimed to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu. It completed its mission after successfully landing on Earth on September 24.

Second Series,’Space Out’, It will be accompanied by soothing music and “high-definition images of the cosmos, from the surface of Mars to a sunset on Uranus.” Finally,’other worlds, It will show how scientists react to data from the James Webb Space Telescope, which launches in December 2021 and is considered the world’s most powerful observatory.

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