Amazon's Prime Video Has a New NASA Live Channel for Streaming Rocket Launches
Can't get enough of those rocket launches and glimpses of the cosmos? Well, if you've got Amazon's Prime Video loaded up on any of your devices, you can now get a whole lot more of that goodness on the new NASA Plus channel.
NASA announced on Tuesday that it has launched a streaming channel featuring content from its NASA Plus service on Prime Video's FAST section, featuring a variety of original educational and documentary content, as well as the occasional rocket launch livestream. "FAST" stands for free ad-supported television, and if you've ever dabbled with Pluto TV, Tubi or Amazon's own defunct Freevee brand, then you're already familiar with the concept.
While "ad-supported" might be in the name of the format, the content from NASA Plus, on Prime Video and it's other apps, is both free of charge and free of ads, since NASA is a US government agency funded by tax dollars.
Dabbling with the new Prime Video channel myself on Wednesday, I was able to access without an Amazon Prime account and without seeing a single ad the entire time. If you're interested in checking it out, you can find it by going to the Live TV section on Prime Video and scrolling down until you find it.
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"Streaming NASA Plus on multiple platforms allows the agency to more efficiently share its missions, from launching astronauts to the International Space Station, to going behind the scenes with the team that defends Earth against asteroids, to showcasing new, high-definition images of the cosmos," Wes Brown, acting associate administrator for the Office of Communications at NASA, said about the new channel in a statement Tuesday.
For the time being, there are no live-streaming events scheduled to air on NASA Plus, but you can check for any other updates to the schedule on the service's official webpage -- and here's a list of all the planned major US space launches for 2025, which you should be able to watch live on the channel.
NASA did not respond to an additional request for comment before this piece was published.
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