Kid Vision Space Adventures.

Let's go to space.# Hi, Kid Vision kids.

It's me, Miss Penny, and we are at the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex.# Are you ready to blast off?

Let's go.

Here we go.

Starting to shrink.

It works kind of like a vacuum cleaner.

You got to turn it on and# the fan spins up and it sucks air.

People have always been fascinated by space.

Look# up.

See the moon, the stars, the planets, the sun.

What are they?

For thousands of years, people# could only look up and wonder.

Then scientists created an instrument called a telescope.

A# telescope helps us look closer at planets and at stars.

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Finally, about 60 years ago,# people invented rockets that were strong enough to take humans into space.

An American president# named John F. Kennedy made it our country's mission to send humans to the moon.

On July 20th,# 1969, something incredible happened.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on# the moon.

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Those words mean that humans# are taking giant leaps in science and technology.

NASA stands for the National Aeronautics# and Space Administration.

NASA is the United States government agency responsible for space# exploration, including missions to the moon, the International Space Station, and Mars.

On# the same property where all this work is being done is the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.# There, families, kids, and explorers like you and I can learn all about the past and the future of# the space [music] program.

I got to explore it with some kid vision kids, and we learned so much.# We learned about rockets, plants growing on Mars, what happens [music] to our senses in space,# inventions from the space program, and even how astronauts eat, sleep, and exercise in space.

The# Kid Vision kids and I got to meet a real astronaut named Winston Scott.

He was so exciting.

He told# us what it's like to live and work in space.

What you do is you float yourself into# the sleeping bag and it keeps your boggy from floating all over the place and you try and# sleep.

Notice the bag is on the ceiling.

Again, you can sleep on the ceiling, on the# wall, on the floor.

But wait a second, what is space and why do people want to go# there?

Space is everything that is way, way, way up in the sky, way above our heads.

It starts# past the air we breathe and goes on and on and on into infinity.

We live on a planet in space.

We# live on Earth.

Earth has something very unique called the atmosphere.

It is a blanket of air that# surrounds our planet.

The atmosphere gives us air to breathe.

But in space beyond our planet,# there is no air.

Another special thing about Earth is gravity.

Gravity [music] is a force that# pulls things down.

Like when we jump and we come right back down to the ground.

That is gravity# at work.

It forces us to the ground.

In space, gravity is much weaker.

So astronauts float.# Astronauts are brave explorers who travel into space.

People go to space because there is# so much to learn.

When astronauts blast off, they help us discover how stars shine, how planets# move, and what it's like where everything floats.

They explore new places, try new experiments,# and bring back ideas that help us here on Earth.

Going to space helps us learn more about our# world, about our universe, and about us.

Thanks for blasting off with us.

[cheering and screaming]# See you on our next Kid Vision Space Adventure.