You could play football ON THE MOON! 🌑

Fun Kids Science Weekly

Fun Kids

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Science

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🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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All aboard the rocket ship into space! It's that time of the week where Dan ventures out and finds all the science secrets lurking around the universe. This week, Sophie Harker from the Institution of Engineering and Technology is telling us how we could play football on the moon! There's a lunar rule book full of ways to adapt to the harsh conditions of space, AND if you're 4-13 years old you can design the official Moon United football kit! For your chance to have your design chosen as the winner, enter here.

India made history with the first moon mission to land on the South Pole of the moon, you want to know if there are colours we can't see (and how do we know if there are?), and there's a deadly mushroom with a VERY cool name in Dangerous Dan. Destroying Angel, I think I saw them at Glastonbury...

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1:15.0	Hello and welcome along to a brand new episode of the only show that takes you right around the galaxy and brings you back in half an hour.
1:24.0	It's the Funkids Science Weekly.
1:29.0	My name's Dan. This is where we search out all of those science secrets lurking through the solar system.
1:35.0	And well, we are heading into space this week and we'll stay up there for quite a while.
1:40.0	You can learn about huge plans to play a game of football on the actual moon.
1:45.0	An awful lot going on right now to figure out how we're going to get to the moon, how we're going to create a settlement on the moon.
1:52.0	So if that's all happening, how can we inspire people to think about life on the moon and become engineers and scientists and be involved in engineering, which is a big part of the IT.
2:01.0	So as the women's world cup was this year, we thought why not combine to really exciting part of our life at the moment, which is space travel and football and created moon united.
2:13.0	So we got a panel of experts together and figured out how we could do this.
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