Teaching babies to love the cosmos.

This week on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah al-Ahmad of the Planetary Society,

with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

This week, commercial space astronaut Sion Proctor and astronomer John Reed

joined me to talk about their new children's book,

Baby's Guide to the Night's Sky, and why it's never too early to fall in love with the cosmos.

And then we'll get Bruce Betts, our chief scientist, take as a kid's author, in What's Up.

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Inspiring the next generation of explorers is something that we talk about a lot on this show. But what does that actually look like when the

audience is still in diapers? It turns out that even the very youngest children can start building a

relationship with the night sky long before they have words to

describe what they're looking at. That early sense of wonder can plant something that lasts a lifetime.

Baby's Guide to the Night Sky, published by source books and on sale since July 7th, introduces

the youngest kids, down to newborns, to constellations and the wonders of the cosmos.

It comes from two people that have spent their lives chasing the same wonder in very different

ways. Dr. Cyan Proctor is a geoscientist, an artist, and a poet. She was also a commercial space astronaut

who served as the pilot on Inspiration 4 in 2021, becoming first

woman commercial space pilot and the only African-American woman to be a mission pilot.

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