Why NASA Is Streaming a Cat Video from Deep Space

First, the who, where, what, and how. Who: Taters the cat, who is owned by a NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) employee. Where: The Psyche spacecraft is currently <a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-tech-demo-streams-first-video-from-deep-space-via-laser" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">about 19 million miles from Earth</a>, or roughly 80 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. What: A video clip of Taters was sent from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. This spacecraft was launched on October 13, 2023, en route to a metal-rich asteroid orbiting around the Sun, in between Mars and Jupiter. <a href="https://medium.com/a-microbiome-scientist-at-large/why-nasa-is-streaming-a-cat-video-from-deep-space-045c8924bef3">Website</a>