Facebook to hold first live-streamed Q & A from outer space

Social media titan Facebook has linked billions of people from six continents, and is now embarking on linking people with astronauts in the outer space.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on Friday that Facebook users can “meet and greet” astronauts in its first-ever live streaming at the International Space Station (ISS).

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg separately announced the “out of this world” invitation on Wednesday in a status post.

Zuckerberg will facilitate the live event as ISS astronauts Tim Peake from the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA astronauts Tim Kopra and Jeff Williams will answer queries of Facebook followers, according to tech news site Tech Times.

In a report by The Next Web, the video chat will last around 20 minutes.

The live streaming’s Facebook events page was flooded with questions from Facebook users, ranging from the type of toilet astronauts use to how astronauts “sneeze” in space.

The Facebook Live video is expected to start at 9:55 a.m. Pacific Time on June 1, or 12:55 a.m. Philippine Standard Time on June 2. The live streaming will be available both on Zuckerberg’s and National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Facebook pages. Gianna Francesca Catolico