Workers repaint the NASA logo connected the Vehicle Assembly Building astatine the Kennedy Space Center connected May 28, 2020 successful Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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NASA's unrecorded programming, including rocket launches, spacewalks and views of Earth from space, volition statesman streaming connected Netflix this summer.
NASA said the determination is portion of its effort to scope a planetary audience, according to a press release. The bureau noted that the contented volition stay escaped and ad-free connected the NASA app and website, wherever it already has unrecorded programming.
NASA+ launched successful 2023 arsenic a mode to springiness the nationalist easier entree to abstraction content.
"The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 calls connected america to stock our communicative of abstraction exploration with the broadest imaginable audience," Rebecca Sirmons, wide manager of NASA+, said successful the release.
NASA did not disclose fiscal details of the deal.
The concern comes arsenic determination has been a surge successful commercialized rocket launches, led by Elon Musk's SpaceX. SpaceX has had 81 launches successful the archetypal fractional of 2025, according to Space Explored. It besides continues to beryllium the lone U.S. institution with a spacecraft that's certified to bring astronauts to the International Space Station.
Meanwhile, NASA has been supporting missions successful low-Earth orbit.
Shares of Netflix, which has much than 700 cardinal users, person been trading astatine all-time highs. The streaming work is up astir 51% since the opening of the year.