Outer space

Today Meredith learned about outer space at school. She has agreed to give me a lesson.

• Astronauts have to wear special clothes; otherwise if they don't, they'll float in the air on the moon or their rocket ship.
• Shooting stars are made of rock.
• The rock hits the air and that's what makes the light. Then they try to find a place to land.
  
• There's not very much air in the sky.
• There are four different planets that go around the sun and one is our planet.
• Our planet is the Earth.
• The astronauts need to wear their helmet and mask to protect against the sun and the stars.
• The sun is the brightest star.
• The Earth looks different when you're in space.
• The sun is in space.
• People can get to space in a rocket ship of course.
• People can walk on the moon but need special clothes for different reasons. Their clothes have different things for different reasons.
• People can't go on the sun.
• The other planets are smaller than ours.
• We can't see the other planets.
• You can see the Great Wall of China up in space or on the Moon maybe.
• When you're going up to space it's hard to say goodbye to the Earth we live on.
• Teachers need to be well trained to go into space.