The US area company stated Wednesday it would host a dwell Twitch stream from the Worldwide Area Station on February 12.

NASA, which has 1.3 million followers on the live-streaming video service, has beforehand broadcast occasions on its Twitch channel. Nonetheless, this would be the first time the company has created an occasion particularly for Twitch.

Through the dwell occasion, starting at 11:45 am ET (16:45 UTC), viewers will hear from NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who’s at present on board the area station, in addition to Matt Dominick, who just lately returned to Earth after the company’s Crew-8 mission. Viewers may have the chance to ask questions on residing in area.

Twitch is owned by Amazon, and it has change into particularly standard within the on-line gaming group for the power to stream video video games and chat with viewers.

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“We spoke with digital creators at TwitchCon about their need for streams designed with their communities in thoughts, and we listened,” stated Brittany Brown, director of the Workplace of Communications Digital and Expertise Division. “Along with our spacewalks, launches, and landings, we’ll host extra Twitch-exclusive streams like this one. Twitch is likely one of the many digital platforms we use to achieve new audiences and get them enthusiastic about all issues area.”