Speaker 1: Lisa, you've been staring at the window for hours, have
Speaker 1: I Cowie's right?
Speaker 2: You seem so story eyed.
Speaker 3: What's on your mind?
Speaker 2: Well, I've been thinking about space a lot. Really, what's
Speaker 2: so interesting about space? It's just so mysterious. I can't
Speaker 2: see anything but starts. But there's so much more to know.
Speaker 2: I wonder what it would be like to be in space.
Speaker 4: Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where we
Speaker 4: discover fascinating facts about the world around us and the
Speaker 4: fun of play learning. Join us as we learn about
Speaker 4: a day in space. Does gravity work.
Speaker 2: The same way?
Speaker 4: How does it affect everyday things like sleep or drinking juice?
Speaker 4: Let's go on a space journey in today's episode. Wow, Lisa,
Speaker 4: you really do seem interested in space lately.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just so different.
Speaker 4: Imagine what it's like to be an astronaut living in space.
Speaker 2: Whoa, there are people that live in space.
Speaker 4: Yeah, astronauts spend a lot of months living on the ISS,
Speaker 4: the International Space Station.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, why don't we pretend to be astronauts in space?
Speaker 3: Great idea, Elliot.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the International Space Station.
Speaker 1: Okay, everyone, we're here, Lisa, where are we moving?
Speaker 2: So slowly. You like that because of gravity.
Speaker 3: Well, more like a lack of gravity.
Speaker 2: What's gravity?
Speaker 3: Gravity is a force of attraction. Really, big objects.
Speaker 2: Have a lot of gravity, like Earth.
Speaker 4: It's what makes us stay on the ground rather than
Speaker 4: floating up to the sky.
Speaker 1: So when we throw a ball up in the air
Speaker 1: and it falls back down, it's because of gravity.
Speaker 4: Exactly in space, far from Earth, there is no gravity.
Speaker 1: So astronauts in the space station float because there's no gravity.
Speaker 4: Well, actually, the International Space Station is close enough to
Speaker 4: feel Earth's gravity, but it feels as if there's no
Speaker 4: gravity because the station is moving so fast. The station
Speaker 4: is constantly speeding around the Earth round and round it goes, and.
Speaker 2: This makes it seem like there's no gravity. That's right.
Speaker 2: That sounds fun and scary.
Speaker 4: And it also creates a lot of challenges. What do
Speaker 4: you mean, Well, try drinking this pretend cup of juice.
Speaker 4: What do you think is going to happen when you
Speaker 4: try to drink it?
Speaker 2: Hmm, well, what will taste yummy?
Speaker 1: Of course, I think that the juice is going to
Speaker 1: float away. Billy says that the juice will also fall
Speaker 1: to a liquid ball.
Speaker 4: But why yes, Billy, that's a great point in space,
Speaker 4: water and other liquids flow in spheres or round blobs
Speaker 4: like small.
Speaker 2: Balls because there's no gravity exactly.
Speaker 3: Oh, don't let it float away?
Speaker 2: Where is it? Billy?
Speaker 4: Billy is telling us to look at the amazing view outside.
Speaker 2: Why Earth looks beautiful at night? Oh?
Speaker 4: Look now the sun is rising over Earth again. It's
Speaker 4: morning again.
Speaker 2: That was grid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, astronauts ses sixteen w sunrises and sunsets every day.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of good mornings and good nights. But
Speaker 1: why well, look outside the space station and notice how
Speaker 1: it looks like.
Speaker 3: The sun is moving fast.
Speaker 4: But it's actually us on the station that are moving
Speaker 4: really fast. The station goes around the Earth every ninety minutes,
Speaker 4: traveling at about seventeen five hundred miles per hour.
Speaker 2: Wow, that sounds really nice.
Speaker 3: It's very fast.
Speaker 4: Indeed, Billy is asking if it's true that astronauts.
Speaker 3: Age more slowly than other people, why.
Speaker 2: Would they age more slowly. Isn't time the same for everyone?
Speaker 4: You would think so if we start to stop watches
Speaker 4: at the same time and count for a whole minute,
Speaker 4: they should stop at the same time, right, Yeah, of course,
Speaker 4: But the truth is that time can move more slowly
Speaker 4: depending on how fast you're going or how much gravity
Speaker 4: is near you.
Speaker 2: So time is different for someone in space.
Speaker 4: Yes, in places with low or no gravity, time passes
Speaker 4: more quickly. So a minute would be shorter for someone
Speaker 4: in space than for someone on Earth.
Speaker 2: Wait, since there's.
Speaker 1: Less gravity in space, wouldn't astronauts age fast or not slower?
Speaker 4: Good observation, Lisa. But it's not just gravity that affects time.
Speaker 4: Remember how I mentioned that it can also depend on
Speaker 4: how fast you're going. Yeah, Well, for someone that's going
Speaker 4: really fast, time passes more slowly.
Speaker 3: It's a similar effect as having a lot of gravity.
Speaker 1: So time passes more slowly for astronauts because the.
Speaker 2: Space station is going super fast.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's why they age more slowly. But it's
Speaker 4: such a tiny difference, only a few milliseconds. It's still
Speaker 4: cool to think about, though, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, space is stranger than I thought.
Speaker 3: It definitely takes some getting used to In every way.
Speaker 1: It sounds fun, but I didn't know space could be
Speaker 1: so challenging.
Speaker 4: There's so much to know and we're just beginning to
Speaker 4: scratch the surface.
Speaker 2: Do you think we can visit space one day? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I want to flow among the stars and drink dust bowls.
Speaker 4: Who knows the future is full of possibilities. For now,
Speaker 4: we can dream and learn.
Speaker 3: Well, Lingo kids, listeners, we learned all about space today.
Speaker 4: We pretended to be astronauts living on the International Space
Speaker 4: Station and we got to experience what daily life in
Speaker 4: space is like. We hope you'll keep learning about space.
Speaker 4: There's so much to know, and don't forget to join
Speaker 4: us next episode to continue play learning together.
Speaker 3: Hm