This 12 months, we’ve already gotten a Sally Experience documentary and one other Ryan Gosling astronaut film, however the largest space-centric growth in 2025 is all because of Netflix‘s unprecedented partnership with NASA: meet NASA+.
Beginning this summer time, audiences can view stay NASA area expeditions and watch every second of the Worldwide Area Station capturing out of this world (actually) footage of Earth. “The Nationwide Aeronautics and our Area Act of 1958 calls on us to share our story of area exploration with the broadest potential viewers,” Rebecca Sirmons, normal supervisor of NASA+, mentioned in an official assertion. “Collectively, we’re dedicated to a Golden Age of Innovation and Exploration — inspiring new generations — proper from the consolation of their sofa or within the palm of their hand from their telephone.”
Audiences will have the ability to stream rocket launches, astronaut spacewalks, and mission protection by means of the NASA+ stay programming. NASA+ can be out there without cost, with out adverts, by means of the NASA app and on the NASA web site. As at the moment’s announcement notes, the work of NASA will develop into “much more accessible, permitting the company to extend engagement with and encourage a world viewers in a contemporary media panorama, the place Netflix reaches a world viewers of greater than 700 million individuals.”
Netflix has been doubling down on academic efforts in latest months: the streamer now has unique worldwide premiere rights for beloved PBS present “Sesame Road.” The platform scooped the rights to the enduring sequence after Warner Bros. Discovery’s HBO Max opted to not tackle the contract once more. “Sesame Road” will proceed to be out there on PBS KIDS and throughout their digital video and video games platforms to proceed offering free public tv. “Sesame Road” is created by Sesame Workshop, a world nonprofit.
Netflix is debuting a reimagined Season 56, in addition to airing 90 hours of earlier episodes and unveiling spinoff storylines. Along with the sequence, Netflix will even additional broaden the “Sesame Road” franchise by creating video video games for each “Sesame Road” and “Sesame Road Mecha Builders.”
Netflix additionally famously has been the platform for a slew of nature docs, together with “Our Dwelling World” narrated by Cate Blanchett, and “Our Planet” with Sir David Attenborough, Salma Hayek, and Penélope Cruz.