Hello, welcome along. My name's Dan. Thanks for listening to the show. This week on the world-famous

award-winning Fun Kids Science Weekly, we will travel all around the universe to learn some of the

secrets that it's keeping. And this week, that's properly true, actually, because we're joined by

Dr. Maggie Adarin Pocock, a friend of the show

she's back on because she's designed a tour through the solar system. She'll tell us all about it.

I might even try and get her to answer one of your spacey questions. That's on the way.

We'll also try about one of the most amazingly designed birds in the sky. And I've

got news for you about a brand new comet. It's on the way on the Science Weekly. First, let's catch

up with one of our favourite inventing geniuses. This is Sir Sidney McSprocket. And he's telling us how

things that we use every single day are made.

How's it made?

Oh, hello, Sir Sidney McSprocket here.

I've been in action-capturing facts all about manufacturing.

It's for this rather splendid stipendary compendium I'm compiling.

You just ask it how something is made, and it'll oblige with a fulsome explanation.

Now, I'm very fond of a balloon.

My wee niece-de-niece from Dumfries had a balloon that played a tune. Would you believe it?

But how are balloons made?

Balloons are made of a stretchy rubber material called latex. That's a white milky liquid made of rubbery particles in water.

Latex has great elasticity.

Oh, it can be stretched eight times its original length and still return to its former shape.

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