NASA has announced a new streaming service called NASA Plus, which is set to arrive on most major platforms next week. The service is free, requires no subscription, and does not include any advertisements.
The American space agency hopes to expand its online presence beyond its current NASA TV broadcast service and YouTube channel by introducing new original content that brings the cosmos to your fingertips.
NASA Plus maintains the tradition of NASA TV with award-winning live coverage, such as the touchdown of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission in September, as stated in the agency’s announcement.
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According to NASA, NASA Plus is accessible for free on most major platforms through the NASA app on Android and iOS smartphones, as well as on laptops and tablets.
Users can also access the service through streaming devices like Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV, as well as via web browsers on desktop computers and mobile devices.
The platform integrates NASA’s previously existing services, including NASA en Español and children’s content such as animated series about NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, which explores Trojan asteroids around Jupiter.
NASA Plus serves as the new home for both past and future space documentaries from the space agency, such as “The Color of Space,” which tells the inspiring stories of NASA’s Black astronauts and was first aired in 2022.
Mark Etkind, the Assistant Director for NASA’s Office of Communications, mentioned NASA Plus for the first time in July, stating, “We’re putting space at your fingertips through NASA’s new streaming platform.”
Etkind added, “Our digital presence helps us tell better stories about the agency’s exploration of the unknown in the air and space, inspires through discovery, and innovates for humanity.”
NASA plans to gradually integrate more of its separate websites and multimedia libraries into NASA Plus to provide an exciting and educational viewing experience.
This means that content from all the agency’s research institutions will be available in one place, summarizing NASA’s goal, as described by Jeff Seaton, NASA’s Chief Information Officer: “Our vision is to inspire humanity through a unified and global web experience.”
