Space Quote

Here's a quote about space from a popular video game: "Nobody's going to space, mate!"

A new book!?!

As a present, someone gave me a book, The Last Launch: Liftoff, about two cats who saw a shuttle when they were kittens. They lived in Florida, and they were teasing crocodiles. They saw Old Tom, an old cat, and they went to college and to space. There is going to be another book, The Last Launch: The Mission.

Blood Vessels

Did you know that your blood vessels end to end would reach 2 1/2 times around the Earth? And halfway to the moon?

Big dog in Space!!!

Once upon a time Russia dogs went to space in a rocket. The dogs had to orbit. They even went before humans. And they were sent to space with 30 mice.

PS - How could dogs drive?

How many moons does Saturn have?

Saturn has eighteen moons. Saturn has the most moons. And Saturn's rings don't count as moons. It's trash! Jupiter has rings, too, but not very many. Saturn's moons are a lot for that planet. Not even Jupiter has the most moons. Here is a picture:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/assets/science/moons/images/main_flash_image.jpg

New Planets

There are lots of other planets circling other stars. They discovered a whole new solar system with one telescope. At first it didn't work until a lot of astronauts went up and repaired it. I learned about it from the book Boy, Were We Wrong About the Solar System!.

They discovered Neptune before they discovered Pluto. At first they thought there were just seven planets. But then they discovered that Saturn was shifting for no reason. Then they discovered Neptune! A few years later, they discovered Pluto!! After that they discovered a comet that passed every 37 years.

Getting your hands wet

This washcloth is really neat. It starts super small (because it's compressed) and then holds water, but when you wring it out in space, it gets your hands wet, because water sticking to your hands [in space] is weird. It actually sticks to your hands instead of flying off or falling.
"It's becoming a tube of water." The water stays around the washcloth and around the hands.

Space Foundation

I finally went to the Space Foundation. At the Space Foundation I learned that Pluto spins over and under the sun and that Venus is dangerous and that Jupiter is covered with storms and that the Milky Way goes around the Earth and other parts and that Pluto swaps with Jupiter's orbit and on Jupiter there are only 10 hours in a day.

Above is an image from the Space Foundation website that shows the big sphere.

Massive Black Hole

The Massive Black Hole is a red spot on the Milky Way. Scientists in Germany studied it. I saw pictures of it, and it was lots of black holes stuck together. It was packed with stars.

My class is going to visit the Space Foundation this month. Here is a picture of space.

                                                      (photo by Chris Lasley on Flickr)

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog. My mom is helping me set up this blog. This is my blog about space.