A miracle material worn by Formula 1 drivers and astronauts!
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
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🗓️ 29 July 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
What's the link between race car drivers and astronauts? Emma Mosley from the National Space Centre is here to chat all about it! From suits to cameras, missions to space have inspired breakthrough technology in the racing field.
Dan reports on some recent science news, such as the human-caused temperature rises in Europe, the Euclid mission to try and figure out how much dark matter is in the universe, and the river Seine in France becoming clean enough to swim in again!
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| 0:00.0 | An out-of-this-world kid's drama, the space program, a tiny Scottish island is |
| 0:07.6 | shocked to find itself the base for a new shuttle flight. And one of the |
| 0:19.0 | islands kids will be the world's first child astronaut. A gripping drama |
| 0:24.8 | serial coming to fun kids. |
| 0:34.8 | In the next episode of the space program, Fridays at 4.30pm will get access to all |
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| 0:55.8 | Hello, welcome along. It's getting a bit hot down here on Planet Earth. So let's |
| 1:01.2 | cool down and take a quick trip across the universe. It's a brand new fun kids |
| 1:06.2 | science weekly. My name's Dan. This is the show where we explore the incredible |
| 1:12.6 | universe around us to find some of those science secrets that have slid the way |
| 1:16.4 | that hidden themselves from human eyes before and we uncover them and make some |
| 1:21.2 | huge discoveries. Now this week, if you love space, you'll love the episode. If |
| 1:26.4 | you love Formula One and racing, you'll love this episode. We are chatting to |
| 1:31.5 | Emma Mosley, who has been looking at the links of how space exploration has |
| 1:36.8 | made race cars even faster. During the very first mission, so the Mercury |
| 1:42.0 | missions, they needed to monitor the astronauts because it was the first time |
| 1:45.6 | they were sending people up into space and they didn't know how the cope, whether |
| 1:49.2 | it be too hard on the body or be great. They didn't know this. They needed to |
| 1:53.6 | monitor the astronauts. So they were the first to come up with a health monitoring |
| 1:57.4 | system to put on the astronauts that they could then transmit the data back |
| 2:01.4 | down to the ground so they can see how they're doing. Also, we'll go to deep space |
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