The Final Frontier

"I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get someplace nobody's ever been." --John Glenn

Dad and Danger admiring the triad.

My husband came back from his run and asked me for help getting kids up and out to show them something—we had a lovely waning crescent moon tucked in the clouds, and Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter were all in a little visible triad! I got out my night sky app to help the kids identify everything and everyone got to see this cool planetary alignment!

Screenshot from the SkyView App on my phone. Link below.

My son, Danger, is adamant that he will grow up to be an astronaut, so we have astronomy on the brain pretty much all the time. Well, first he wanted to be Davy Crockett, but once he realized that earth doesn't really have many frontiers left for a Davy Crockett kind of guy, he decided to look to the final frontier: space. 

A few electronic resources (including the app I mentioned above) that we highly recommend include: 

• SkyView Lite App
• NASA's Media Library
• Storytime in Space
• The International Space Station (and the ISS Instagram is great, too!)
• NASA homepage

And if you're on Instagram, we enjoy the Insta accounts of NASA and ISS, plus you can follow specific astronauts on Instagram to get their perspective of all the exciting things happening in space!