Watch NASA TV Free in HD
As a kid growing up, only one thing got me out of bed early and that was a manned rocket launch. I’m old enough to remember the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs and remember well watching in awe as Alan Shepherd, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, and the others lifted off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
It was an exciting time in a time when it seemed like all our nation shared the same goals and instead of fighting with each other, we worked together to bring about great accomplishments in things social, political, and scientific.
I wonder what would happen today if a president would set a goal of putting men/women on Mars by 2030. Would we work together to make it happen or nitpick over petty political ideologies?
I wonder what would happen if a president challenged our country to fix our broken educational system so that instead of being number 32 in the world in education, the United States became number 1 again as it was in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Enough musing. If you’d like to watch what’s going on at NASA these days, and see astronauts live on the International Space Station, then this NASA site is for you.
Here’s a little blurb from the NASA Streaming HDTV site:
NASA TV airs a variety of regularly scheduled, pre-recorded educational and public relations programming 24 hours a day on its various channels. Programs include “NASA Gallery”, which features photographs and video from NASA’s history; “Video File”, which broadcasts b-roll footage for news and media outlets; “Education File”, which provides special programming for schools; “NASA Edge” and “NASA 360”, hosted programs that focus on different aspects of NASA; and “This Week @ NASA”, which shows news from NASA centers around the country. Live ISS coverage and related commentary is aired daily at 11 a.m. EST and repeats throughout the day.[7]
The network also provides an array of live programming, such as 24-hour coverage of Space Shuttle missions, ISS events (spacewalks, media interviews, educational broadcasts), press conferences and rocket launches. These often include running commentary by members of the NASA Public Affairs Office who serve as the “voice of Mission Control,” including Rob Navias, Josh Byerly, Nicole Cloutier and Brandi Dean.
Ready to watch some NASA TV? Good! You’re in luck…you can watch NASA TV here.