NASA

by NASA
4.4 out of 5 stars32,425 customer ratings
All Ages
Price: App Free to Download
Sold by:Amazon.com Services, Inc
Works with:Game Controllers,Fire TV Voice Remote
Languages Supported: English

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What's new in version Varies by device
  • New interface for FireTV

Product Details

Release Date: 2015
Date first listed on Amazon: June 18, 2015
Developed By: NASA
ASIN: B00ZVR87LQ
Customer reviews:
4.4 out of 5 stars32,425 customer ratings

Product features

  • Watch live-streaming NASA Television
  • Get a real-time view of Earth from the International Space Station
  • View more than 16,000 images, either individually or as a slideshow
  • Play more than 14,000 on-demand NASA videos
  • Learn more about NASA’s current missions

Product description

NASA app showcases a huge collection of the latest NASA content, including images, videos on-demand, NASA Television, mission information, news & feature stories, latest tweets, ISS sighting opportunities, satellite tracking, Third Rock Radio and much more. The NASA app is available free of charge.

User Data Privacy

Developer has indicated that this app does not collect or transfer user data to third parties.
To learn more, visit the developer’s privacy policy.

Technical details

Size: Varies by device (9.9MB - 46.1MB)
Version: Varies by device
Developed By: NASA ( Privacy Policy )
Application Permissions: ( Help me understand what permissions mean )
  • Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, Wi-Fi) location
  • Access fine (e.g., GPS) location
  • Access information about networks
  • Access information about Wi-Fi networks
  • Open network sockets
  • Read from external storage
  • Get notified that the operating system has finished booting
  • Access the vibration feature
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
  • Write to external storage
Minimum Operating System: Varies by device
Approximate Download Time: More than 5 minutes

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the app useful and professional-looking. They appreciate the great pictures and photos taken from space. The information is well-organized, providing access to interesting projects being managed by the space agency. The channel provides a nice feed with live streaming of space launches and views from the International Space Station.

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195 customers mention "App quality"180 positive15 negative

Customers find the app useful and professional-looking. They say it's a great app to use on TV, with amazing detail and colors. The app seems to work well once all the individual modules load, and is fun and easy to use.

"This is truly a treasure. The photos are clear, sharp, and beautiful !..." Read more

"...An extremely well done, professional appearing app. Wonderful!" Read more

"One of, if not the most enjoyable app I've ever encountered...." Read more

"...I love that I can see God's beautiful creation and learn about it in this app." Read more

140 customers mention "Pictures quality"132 positive8 negative

Customers enjoy the pictures and videos from the mobile application. They find the photos cool, with great video tours of the ISS. The app provides a good consolidation of photos, articles, websites, podcasts, webcasts, and other content from the NASA website. However, some customers report issues with the app being unstable or hanging.

"...An extremely well done, professional appearing app. Wonderful!" Read more

"I love this app! It shows you pictures daily and has vids and everything a space nerd would want...." Read more

"...It is both educational and entertaining. It is well worth downloading. Even if you're not an astronomer the photography is fabulous!..." Read more

"First, we love the NASA app! Well done and child friendly! However!! My child uses a Kindle Fire with a Child profile for safety...." Read more

127 customers mention "Information quality"127 positive0 negative

Customers find the mobile application useful for learning about NASA's activities and history. It provides access to interesting projects and missions. The information is organized in a logical way that allows space enthusiasts to drill down for more details. The videos are informative yet brief, making the app both educational and entertaining.

"...All the photos come with information, definitions, and explanations, as well as links to additional related material...." Read more

"...They have a couple of other channels that show earthbound sciency shows, interviews in the Space Stations between astronauts and earthbound people,..." Read more

"...I was really after was station pass information, but this app includes a whole lot more, enough that you could loose yourself in it for days on end...." Read more

"...This app brings it all home, up close and up to date...." Read more

85 customers mention "Channel quality"79 positive6 negative

Customers like the channel quality. They say it's a good choice for space-related shows and live events from the ISS.

"...the broadcasts from the ISS are great though...seeing people living in space...when I grew up it was..." Read more

"EVERYTHING IS GOOD. I HAD BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR THE NASA APP TO COME OUT ON THE KINDLE AND ITS BETTER THAN I EXPECTED...." Read more

"Good TV app" Read more

"NASA is one of the best streaming channels for space related shows and anything live going on at the ISS...." Read more

47 customers mention "Live streaming"47 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the live streaming feature of the mobile application. They can watch space launches, views from the International Space Station, and on-demand videos. The live feed from the space station is interesting.

"I love this app! It shows you pictures daily and has vids and everything a space nerd would want...." Read more

"It's nice that all of the NASA videos are in one place, but aside of from the structured user interface, much of the content can already be seen on..." Read more

"...It was still pretty awesome. You can watch live launches, you can check to see when the ISS is going to be visible from your location,..." Read more

"It is wonderful to sit at home and watch the views from the International Space Station...." Read more

34 customers mention "Ease of use"30 positive4 negative

Customers find the mobile application easy to use and navigate. It's convenient for them to download and access from their Amazon Fire Stick TV. They appreciate the easy connection to NASA activities and programming.

"...It is laid out for intuitive use, but also provides for drilling down for space geeks to find information...." Read more

"...The site is not hard to navigate-- if I can do it anyone can! And the price is super too. Thank you for making it available...." Read more

"I like this a lot. Watch it every so often. Easy to move about easy to watch. They had the whole launch when I started and I see other fun stories...." Read more

"...And its really not that hard to navigate....what is hard is looking up something that you're interested in and finding a gazillion other amazing..." Read more

34 customers mention "Interest"34 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the content. They find the content cool, magical, and amazing. The live streams of missions are beautiful and exciting. The videos are informative yet brief. Customers enjoy the events and live feeds during NASA launches.

"...This app brings it all home, up close and up to date...." Read more

"...on the moon and on planets after my life is over but it's been an AWESOME ride! Thank you American Space program!" Read more

"There is some cool content on here. I like some of the old stuff you can see on here." Read more

"What's not to like about this. Amazing people doing amazing things and sharing their experiences...." Read more

20 customers mention "Video quality"7 positive13 negative

Customers have different views on the video quality. Some find it great and reliable for streaming NASA videos without glitches. Others say the video quality is poor, the content is poor, and the design is terrible.

"...It's a big planet, but I think the stream is only 1080 resolution. If I'm not mistaken, then the ISS needs to add 4k and 8k streams...." Read more

"It's a video feed. Yes if you want a non nonscence NASA video feed this is the APP you want." Read more

"...I was hoping to watch eclipse coverage, but no good to watch any live video. App seems to work ok now. I guess it was overload of NASA TV server." Read more

"...of other worlds.... Why would you then stream the most horrible low resolution video. Video Toaster titles. Just not good. Content just as bad." Read more

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Top reviews from the United States

  • Charlie'sGirl
    5.0 out of 5 stars A MULTI - FACETED GEM !!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2015
    Verified Purchase
    This is truly a treasure. The photos are clear, sharp, and beautiful ! Besides galaxies, nebulae, stars, and other astronomical wonders, there are views of the International Space Station from inside and outside, current weather and environmental activities on earth ( fires, floods, hurricanes, etc. ), and NASA missions in progress. You can save all the photos you want, send them wherever you want, ( I sent a number of the more unusual ones to my grandson ), listen and watch live TV and radio broadcasts, as well as videos. All the photos come with information, definitions, and explanations, as well as links to additional related material. There are other activities to explore as well, and everything is kept current and continually updated.

    Since I have suffered the loss of EVERYTHING on my Kindle Fire HDX7, as well as the use of said device, and including ALL my photos and videos due to Amazon's destructive updates in November of 2014, I have found a way to make sure I have a backup for what I want to save. I send it to a Gmail account set up solely for that purpose, on my new Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. Email is accessible from virtually every device and PC, and it has for years hung on to literally thousands of things for me under more than a hundred labels ( since 2008 ).

    This app is free today, but would be well worth a modest fee to aquire all it contains. I enthusiastically recommend it for everyone.
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  • Neil
    5.0 out of 5 stars All the biggest stars
    Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2022
    Verified Purchase
    I don't tune in NASA TV often enough. I seem to recall there are a couple of minor functions that are available on NASA's website that were missing from the Vizio Smart-TV NASA-app.

    A couple of cameras on the ISS space station, about 240 miles up, are always sending down two video stream for everyone to choose which one you wanna watch. In space, no one can hear you complain about the Class Struggle, so if want some quiet wallpaper instead of the constant jabbering we're always inundated with, tune in one of those cameras and watch the world silently go by.

    One camera is a view of about ¼ of Earth. It's a lot of blue with clouds, rotating under the space station. Or maybe it's the space station speeding over the Earth.

    After a while, I prefer the 2nd camera. It's mounted outside the space station, and is pointed at another external area of the space station, so more detail than Big Blue. If you're lucky, you can watch some spacemen or spaceladies working on the outside on the space station.

    At sunrise and sunset at the station, communication is lost between the space station and Earth, the video feeds are lost, too. But NASA displays a countdown to tell us when the feed will return. When it returns, it usual starts pretty dark. Both cameras provide interesting lighting effects as the station approaches sunset and when it comes back at sunrise.

    That's all available on one of their channels.

    They have a couple of other channels that show earthbound sciency shows, interviews in the Space Stations between astronauts and earthbound people, show-and-tell from the ISS, and other spacy stuff. They include schedules of upcoming presentations and rocket takeoffs so you can plan your days around what they're doing.

    The camera that watches ¼ of the the big blue ball is the first thing you'll get tired of. Blue marble streaked with clouds only goes so far. It's a big planet, but I think the stream is only 1080 resolution. If I'm not mistaken, then the ISS needs to add 4k and 8k streams. On the present stream, it's hard to see when the ISS passes over a coastline. There's so little contrast of surface details, you can't differentiate between land and ocean, so you can't hardly see coastlines. I recognized a shot of Gibraltar/Spain/Algeria once, but I never recognized the East or West coasts of the US as the ISS passed over a coastline.
    4 people found this helpful
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  • Phil Dunlop
    5.0 out of 5 stars This one works, if it could be rated 10 stars, I would give it 10 stars!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2015
    Verified Purchase
    I put this app on my Kindle HD after the poor result I found from ISS Detector. If the NASA app displayed orbital position it would be even better, but at least the ISS pass information is true. All I was really after was station pass information, but this app includes a whole lot more, enough that you could loose yourself in it for days on end. So, if you want to know anything about NASA, this is the app to get. It is surprisingly small on the Kindle, considering all the stuff it offers. Update: My second sentence is wrong! Silly me, all I had to do was click the little ISS icon at the top of the ISS item and viola! there is the graphic orbital display with zoom capability. This is the icing on the cake! And it displays the correct orbit path, something that some other ISS tracking apps cannot. An extremely well done, professional appearing app. Wonderful!
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  • R. Schunk
    4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty nice...
    Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2020
    Verified Purchase
    Got to watching NASA feed on satellite and got to like it...especially the clips of older NASA stuff...started watching the live ISS feed (watching for a UFO) but found out the feed is delayed by a few seconds, probably so they can blank it when a UFO appears...)...the broadcasts from the ISS are great though...seeing people living in space...when I grew up it was just Science Fiction...way before Star Trek and Star Wars....think Flash Gordon....
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  • S. Beckham
    3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed experience
    Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2023
    Verified Purchase
    I have a space-loving child. She dreams of the stars and planets. This app has allowed her to explore “the final frontier” in the comfort of her Amazon fire.
    We bought Fires for our kids as a simple safe way for them to read Kindle books, listen to music and even draw digitally. We set up all of the parent controls to prevent them from accessing the internet and downloading brain numbing games.
    This NASA app was installed on their tablets with our permission. What could go wrong? Well, it turns out that the NASA videos open browser access to YouTube despite the digital limitations placed by us.
    Now, after wondering why my kids have been so tired in the morning, my daughter confessed that they have been watching YouTube videos for hours after bedtime. Ugh. I hate that I need to take away a resource for exploring a passion. But I cannot police their screen time 24/7.
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  • OldTimer'51
    5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2022
    Verified Purchase
    One of, if not the most enjoyable app I've ever encountered. I was born in1951 and have been hooked on "space" since I discovered its existence. This app brings it all home, up close and up to date.
    If you have any interest in space and exploration or if you just want a "place to go" get this and spend some time. You won't be sorry!
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  • JRP
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well presented and some live themes.
    Reviewed in Canada on October 13, 2024
    Verified Purchase
    Excellent pictures and footage!
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  • Max
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buena app
    Reviewed in Mexico on August 19, 2021
    Verified Purchase
    Muestra mucho contenido de interés relacionado a la NASA.
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  • fatima borges
    5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable quand on s'intéresse à la culture et la vie dans l'espace
    Reviewed in France on May 13, 2021
    Verified Purchase
    Très bonne application utilisée avec la Fire TV et le PC, des images en direct inoubliables, des documentaires passionnants. N'étant pas anglophone je traduit via l'application traduction. Pourquoi pas rajouter des sous titres en français ? Je mets 5 étoiles sans hésiter.
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  • Mário C.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sensacional e Fantástico
    Reviewed in Brazil on June 14, 2020
    Verified Purchase
    Eu já conhecia em alguns hotéis na Flórida/EUA, quando comprei o Fire Cube da Amazom/USA ficou mais fácil de assistir . Um dos melhores aplicativos. Fiquei curioso para saber se no Fire TV consigo também.
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  • Rafa Padi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Muy entretenido.
    Reviewed in Spain on February 25, 2021
    Verified Purchase
    Entretenido y con calidad de imagen.
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