Every TV Show Astronauts Can Watch on the ISS Right Now

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have serious business to handle each day. But even astronauts need time to rest and relax. And if they like, they can watch a movie or a TV show. How about an option like 250 feet above the ground? It’s amazingly beautiful, if you can believe it.

Back in 2016, Gizmodo submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to NASA for movies and TV shows that were available to watch on the ISS. The list was an interesting little exploration into the lives of astronauts when they had time off. So we recently decided to submit a new FOIA request to learn what new movies and TV shows might be streaming up there.

Today, we start with just a list of TV shows. What’s new? A lot, as it turns out. There are, of course, space-themed shows like Hulu’s First of all with Sean Penn from 2018, the critically acclaimed historical drama To All Humanityand Trump-era humor Space Force. Other new series include Bobba Fett’s book, The crownand a cooking show It has been chopped.

Other sci-fi series include Andor, Star Trek Discovery, Fireflyagain Battlestar Galactica. But there are also many Earthbound sitcoms from the last few decades Friends, Young Sheldon, How I Met Your Mother, again The Big Bang Theory. Astronauts can also watch HBO shows like Westworld, The Truth Detectiveagain Game of Thronesamong others.

The ISS also has similar Apple displays SuccessionNetflix shows like Stranger Thingsand Disney+ shows like Loki. In general, shows seem to have multiple seasons released, but there are a few exceptions. For example, ISS was loaded with the first, second, and fourth seasons of Mr. Robot. Where is season three? That part is unclear.

There is also a series of similar documentaries When We Left Earth: NASA’s Missions since 2008, From the Earth to the Moon since 1998, too The Last Days of World War II since 2005.

Here is the complete list of TV shows available for viewing by astronauts on the ISS:

• 1883 (Season 1)
• The Americans (Seasons 1-4)
• Among the Stars
• Andor (Season 1)
• Arrested Development (Seasons 1-3)
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (Seasons 1-3)
• Band of Brothers
• Banff Film Festival World Tour
• Battlestar Galactica (Seasons 1-4)
• Better Call Saul (Seasons 1-6)
• The Big Bang Theory (Seasons 1-8)
• Big Little Lies (Seasons 1-2)
• The Blackadder (Seasons 1-4)
• Breaking Bad (Seasons 1-6)
• The Cosmos
• It has been chopped (Season 51)
• The chosen ones (Seasons 1-3)
• Countdown: Inspiration 4 Mission to Space
• A crown (Seasons 1-4)
• Deadwood (Seasons 1-3)
• He is dead to Me (Seasons 1-2)
• Space (Seasons 1-6)
• The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Season 1)
• Firefly
• First of all (Season 1)
• Fixer Upper (Seasons 1-5)
• To All Humanity (Seasons 1-3)
• Friends (Seasons 6-10)
• Friends Meeting
• Friday Night Lights (Seasons 1-5)
• From the Earth to the Moon
• Game of Thrones (Seasons 1-8)
• The Godless (Season 1)
• The Handmaid’s Tale (Seasons 1-2)
• The House of the Beast (Season 1)
• How to be Russian
• How I Met Your Mother (Seasons 1-8)
• Jack Ryan (Seasons 1-2)
• Kaamelott
• Killing Eve (Seasons 1-3)
• The Last Dance
• The Last Days of World War II
• This Bureau
• Loki (Season 1)
• The Lonely Dove
• Longmire (Seasons 1-6)
• Lord of the Rings Rings of Power (Season 1)
• Lost in Space (Seasons 1-2)
• The Mandalorian (Seasons 1-2)
• Modern Family (Seasons 1-11)
• Mr. Robot (Seasons 1-2, 4)
• The office (Seasons 1-9)
• Parks and Recreation (Seasons 1-7)
• The Peaky Blinders (Season 1)
• The Queen’s Gambit
• ReelRock
• The Right Stuff (Season 1)
• Schott’s Creek (Seasons 3-6)
• Seinfeld (Season 1-9)
• Separation (Season 1)
• Shackleton
• Sherlock (Seasons 1-3)
• Silicon Valley (Season 1-6)
• Space Force (Season 1-2)
• Squid game (Season 1)
• Star Trek Discovery (Seasons 1-3)
• Star Trek Picard
• Stranger Things (Seasons 1-4)
• Succession (Season 2)
• Ted Lasso (Seasons 1-3)
• The Book of Boba Fett (Season 1)
• The Terror
• A witch (Seasons 1-2)
• The Truth Detective (Season 1)
• Wandavision (Season 1)
• They don’t wait (Season 1)
• Westworld (Seasons 1-3)
• When We Leave Earth
• Yellowstone (Seasons 1-4)
• Young Sheldon (Season 6)

Do you see anything remarkable? Anything you think would be funny to watch in space, for one reason or another? Stay tuned as we take a look at the largest collection of movies that astronauts can watch on the ISS.