Zuckerberg Chats With Astronauts To Promote Live Video Function

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook Inc FB made everyone sit up and take notice of the social media giant's Live Video platform by chatting with NASA astronauts Tim Kopra and Jeff Williams and the European Space Agency's Tim Peake who were at the International Space Station. "When you're building products to try to connect everyone in the world, connecting folks who are out in space is about as extreme and cool as it gets," Zuckerberg said. A CNN report says this isn't the first time that NASA has live-streamed to a social platform. But it is the first time that astronauts have used Facebook Live. In the past, NASA has used Google+ Hangouts and Skype to talk to people on earth. http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/01/technology/facebook-live/index.html?iid=SF_LN "All of these use the same video streams from space that are then plugged into these different tools here on the ground," a NASA spokesman told CNNMoney. During the roughly 20-minute session, the astronauts talked about their mission and what they like to do for fun. Ironically, when Zuckerberg asked the astronauts about the favorite piece of technology that they've been using in space, they answered Virtual Reality. Notably, VR is Zuckerberg's "other big obsession."