NASA's next frontier: A Netflix streaming deal

Netflix is already location to fashionable dramas similar “Squid Game,” movies and unrecorded boxing matches. The adjacent frontier for the streamer: unrecorded rocket launches from NASA.

The streaming elephantine connected Monday said it is teaming up with the bureau to bring abstraction into viewers’ surviving rooms, including with views of Earth from the International Space Station, to its immense contented offering arsenic the institution treks further into the realm of unrecorded TV.

Content from streaming work NASA+, which includes rocket launches, astronaut abstraction walks and ngo coverage, volition beryllium coming to the Los Gatos, Calif.-based streaming work this summer.

“The National Aeronautics and our Space Act of 1958 calls connected america to stock our communicative of abstraction exploration with the broadest imaginable audience,” said Rebecca Sirmons, wide manager of NASA+, successful a statement. “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.”

No wealth exchanged hands betwixt NASA and Netflix successful the non-exclusive agreement, said NASA spokesperson Cheryl Warner. Netflix declined to remark connected the presumption of the deal.

The ads-free NASA contented could acceptable successful with the streamer’s different acquisition programs, including documentaries and shows targeting families including “Sesame Street” and “Ms. Rachel.” Children’s programming has been a maturation country for Netflix arsenic it encroaches connected the accepted broadcasters’ turf.

Netflix past twelvemonth said it had much than 301 cardinal subscribers. On Monday, the streamer said its assemblage encompasses much than 700 cardinal people.

NASA+ continues to beryllium disposable and escaped connected its website and connected the NASA app. Space-related nonfiction programming has a agelong past for movie and tv viewers, whether done Imax depository documentaries and nationalist broadcasting’s storied NOVA franchise.