NASA

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.

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!

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.

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....

I am 71 yrs old and saw Alan Shepherd become the 1st American Astronaut to arc over N. America. I watched John Glenn become the 1st Astronaut to circle the Earth 3 times and was GLUED to the TV set when Neil Armstrong hopped over that ladder to take his first steps on the moon and I have been able to watch almost every set of NASA shots since the 60's. Two of my sons and one grandson live in Melbourne, FL and watch the launches from their backyards. Space X and NASA now will take our place on the moon and on planets after my life is over but it's been an AWESOME ride! Thank you American Space program!

The NASA application is Free. It provides a wealth of information including video, photos and television feeds. It is both educational and entertaining.

It is well worth downloading. Even if you're not an astronomer the photography is fabulous! It is definitely more child friendly than any of the video games your children will be tempted to download and a much more worthwhile experience. It is refreshing to see at least some of our tax dollars being used in such a useful and productive manner.

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.

Wish we had something like this when I was in school --- at least 100 years ago! The pictures are outstanding, the information is also. I always thought of the Mississippi River as more or less straight, but it wanders all over the place. The videos, the views of the planets, every thing is exceptional. 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.

Not Jerry, his wife

Honestly I find this so inspirational. So many intelligent people working to improve mankind. Love the old footage too.

I think Mars is a bridge too far though. A long way to find a dead planet. There's no second Earth out there I'm afraid, or we'll be long gone before we're able to set foot on it. Best to fix this one guys!!!

Love it though.

Sydney, NSW Australia.

Excellent pictures and footage!

Entretenido y con calidad de imagen.

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.

ISSからのライブ映像を流して視聴しています。ずっと見ていられますね

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