NASA Streams First Video Of Cat Named “Taters” From Deep Space Via Laser

A cat video was streamed by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from almost 20 million miles away, or 40 round trip flights to the moon, using laser communication.

NASA engineers gathered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, on December 11, to view a video of one of the lab’s employee’s cats named Taters.

For the first time, the high-definition video was streamed from 18.6 million miles away, or roughly 80 times the distance from the Earth to the moon, the farthest stream ever.