Live from Space: For an out of the world experience

Is it possible to produce a live television event from a $100 billion studio that’s 250 miles above the Earth’s surface and traveling at 4.9 miles per second? That will be the task at hand this month for National Geographic Channel (NGC) Worldwide with the production of Live from Space, a television event that will literally take viewers beyond the stratosphere. Viewers in the Middle East can watch the Live from Space live broadcast on National Geographic Abu Dhabi at 3 a.m. KSA TIME on Saturday, with a repeat airing on the same day at 8 p.m. KSA time.
“Everyday at National Geographic Channel our team tries to reach for the stars,” said Athreyan Sundararajan, Head of Marketing, National Geographic Abu Dhabi “Now we are literally able to do it! We are honored to have secured such amazing access to the station and the astronauts living there, and are exhilarated by the tremendous challenge to show Earth from an entirely new perspective… live.”
With unique access to and footage from the International Space Station (ISS) and Mission Control, Live from Space will take viewers into orbit with ISS-based astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata, while astronaut Mike Massimino (most notably known for fixing the Hubble Telescope) will keep us grounded live from Houston.
The ISS orbits Earth every 90 minutes, meaning NGC will quite literally take viewers on a trip around the world during the two hour broadcast.
For those fascinated by the recent emergency spacewalks to replace a vital cooling system, Live from Space will show even more intimately what it takes to run this floating world. From space, Mastracchio and Wakata will give viewers a fully guided tour, showing us how they live for months in microgravity. In their own words, learn how they sleep upside down, stay fit, maintain personal hygiene and, of course, that question everyone is always curious about, how they use the toilet. They’ll conduct never-before-broadcast experiments that demonstrate the real-world value of the science conducted on the floating laboratory. We’ll also show how science in space is benefiting people on Earth such as the ISS’s robotic systems, which are the inspiration for a neurosurgical robot that removes brain tumors. Astronauts, flight controllers and researchers will be featured in original segments from the ISS and NASA Mission Control during the course of the two-hour live event.
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of this riveting, not to be missed live broadcast is the opportunity for viewers to video chat with Mastracchio and Wakata themselves. Imagine, your own face beamed up into space to join the highest conversation happening on, and beyond our planet! Just one more reason to tune into this show of a lifetime.