Facebook chats live with International Space Station

The International Space Station will live chat Mark Zuckerberg tomorrow afternoon. Photo / NASA

Facebook is gearing up to host a live chat with the International Space Station, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced.

The live chat, which will be held with the astronauts on from Facebook HQ, will begin at 4.55pm NZT Thursday, June 2.

In Zuckerberg's post, he urged Facebook users to leave comments ready for the chat, adding he will try to ask many as he can.

The post has so far received 14,000 comments and 10,000 shares.

We're doing the first ever Facebook Live from space tomorrow! I'll be going live from Facebook HQ with astronauts on the...

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, 31 May 2016