Every TV Show Astronauts Can Watch on the ISS Right Now

Astronauts on board the International Space Station have a lot of serious business to handle each day. But even astronauts need time for rest and relaxation. And if they like, they can watch a movie or TV show. What’s the selection like 250 feet above the Earth? Surprisingly good, if you can believe it.

Way back in 2016, Gizmodo submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to NASA for the movies and TV shows that were available to watch on the ISS. The list was a fascinating little peek into life for astronauts when they’ve got some downtime. So we recently decided to submit a new FOIA request to learn what new movies and TV shows may be streaming up there.

Today, we’re starting with just the list of TV shows. What’s new? A lot, as it turns out. There are, of course, space-themed shows like Hulu’s The First with Sean Penn from 2018, the critically acclaimed alt-history drama For All Mankind, and the Trump-era comedy Space Force. Other new series include Book of Bobba Fett, The Crown, and the cooking show Chopped.

Other sci-fi series include Andor, Star Trek Discovery, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica. But there are also plenty of Earth-bound sitcoms from the past few decades like Friends, Young Sheldon, How I Met Your Mother, and Big Bang Theory. Astronauts also can watch HBO shows like Westworld, True Detective, and Game of Thrones, among others.

The ISS also has Apple shows like Succession, Netflix shows like Stranger Things, and Disney+ shows like Loki. Typically, the shows appear to have most seasons that have been released, but there are a few exceptions. For example, the ISS is loaded with seasons one, two, and four of Mr. Robot. Where’s season three? That part isn’t clear.

There are also documentary series like When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions from 2008, From the Earth to the Moon from 1998, and The Last Days of World War II from 2005.

Here’s the complete list of TV shows available for astronauts to watch 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)
• Big Bang Theory (Seasons 1-8)
• Big Little Lies (Seasons 1-2)
• Blackadder (Seasons 1‐4)
• Breaking Bad (Seasons 1-6)
• Cosmos
• Chopped (Season 51)
• The Chosen (Seasons 1 ‐3)
• Countdown: Inspiration 4 Mission to Space
• The Crown (Seasons 1-4)
• Deadwood (Seasons 1-3)
• Dead to Me (Seasons 1-2)
• The Expanse (Seasons 1‐6)
• Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Season 1)
• Firefly
• The First (Season 1)
• Fixer Upper (Seasons 1‐5)
• For All Mankind (Seasons 1‐3)
• Friends (Seasons 6‐10)
• Friends the Reunion
• Friday Night Lights (Seasons 1‐5)
• From the Earth to the Moon
• Game of Thrones (Seasons 1-8)
• Godless (Season 1)
• The Handmaid’s Tale (Seasons 1-2)
• House of the Dragon (Season 1)
• How I Became 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
• Le Bureau
• Loki (Season 1)
• Lonesome Dove
• Longmire (Seasons 1‐6)
• The Lord of the Rings the 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)
• Peaky Blinders (Season 1)
• The Queen’s Gambit
• ReelRock
• The Right Stuff (Season 1)
• Schtt’s Creek (Seasons 3-6)
• Seinfeld (Season 1‐9)
• Severance (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
• The Witcher (Seasons 1-2)
• True Detective (Season 1)
• Wandavision (Season 1)
• Watchmen (Season 1)
• Westworld (Seasons 1‐3)
• When We Left The Earth
• Yellowstone (Seasons 1‐4)
• Young Sheldon (Season 6)

Do you spot anything notable? Anything you think would be funny to watch in space, for one reason or another? Stay tuned as we check out the enormous collection of movies that astronauts can watch on the ISS.