Zuckerberg to take Facebook Live to space with ISS astronaut chat
Facebook will already be going to the some of the deepest parts of Earth’s oceans thanks to its transatlantic submarine cable plans, and now the social media giant will be reaching into space through a Facebook Live chat between company CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and the astronauts of the International Space Station (ISS).
“Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and chief executive officer, will speak with three astronauts currently living and working aboard the International Space Station at 12:55 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 1,” NASA announced. “The Earth-to-space call will be seen live on NASA’s Facebook page.”
“During the 20-minute Facebook Live video call with NASA astronauts Tim Kopra and Jeff Williams, and ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Tim Peake, Zuckerberg will ask questions submitted on NASA’s Facebook page.”
Facebook users can submit questions they would like Zuckerberg to ask the astronauts on the event’s Facebook page.
The ISS is a joint science program that is operated as a collaboration between the United States, Russia, Japan, and Canada, as well as the 22 European countries that are part of the European Space Agency.
The ISS has been slowly expanding in size over the last 18 years, and the station recently made headlines when it installed and attempted to activate its first inflatable room. Unfortunately, the new module failed to fully extend on the first try, but it successfully inflated on the second attempt.
Photo by NASA on The Commons
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