Hello, welcome along. It's the Fun Kids Science Weekly. This is our best of 2019 episode. So if you've just got a new smart speaker or phone or something like that for Christmas and you've only just found the greatest podcast in the history of the universe, which is us, by the way, this is the perfect place for you to start and for you to get involved. My name's Dan, and in this episode, we're looking back at some of the most amazing

experts that we've chatted to over the last year, and we'll take a look at some of the best

and the most weird, dangerous Dan's that we've studied through the last 12 months. We'll have a

look at the worst insect sting ever recorded. We'll check out the

stinkiest fruit in the world and we'll find out exactly why we've never seen aliens. And that's a

good place to start actually in space. You see, back in July, we celebrated the 50th anniversary

of the moon landing when Apollo 11 carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael

Collins to the moon and humans set foot on it for the very first time. It was a massive deal

because it was a race to get there. Global politics were being settled on who would be their first.

Some of the biggest countries in the whole world wanted to be the first to stick their flag on the moon. And we learned all about it earlier on this year with Chris Riley.

It's the Fun Kid Science Weekly. Now on the 20th of July, the world will be celebrating the 50th

anniversary of the first humans to set foot on the moon. Christopher Riley is a scientist who knows all about the

journey, loads about the moon. He's written loads about it, including the brand new book

Where We Wanted, and he's on the show. Hey Chris. Hey, it's a great pleasure to be here. I was thinking,

why don't we start at the start? So, when did humans first start realizing that there's this lump of rock in the

sky? Maybe we can get quite close to it. Oh, good question. Well, I suppose the thing about us as human

beings looking up at the night sky was that it's always been there. I mean, from the beginnings of our first inklings of who we were,

we were looking up at the sky, we were making patterns out of the stars

and telling each other's stories about the kind of creatures that lived there.

And of course, here was the biggest thing in the sky that we could see,

you know, the equivalent of the sun at night,

there it was, rising and setting, changing every day, moving across the night sky, pretty damn fast,

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