Trade Your Swimsuit For a Spacesuit 🚀

The Ten News, News For Curious Kids

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Education For Kids, Kids & Family, News

4.4 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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🚀 Could your next vacation be on planet Mars? 🧗‍♀️ What can a record-setting rock climb teach you about dreams, challenges, and goals? 🏈 How did the COVID pandemic change professional sports like basketball, baseball, and hockey this year? ⁉️ Can you answer the Trivia Question of the Day? 🎄 When workers set up the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York City, what surprise did they find? 🎄 See a photo of that Christmas Tree surprise along with our lists of Favorites of the Year 2020 on the Ten News website: TheTenNews.com 🚀 Explore how Scientists May Have Found a Material for Building on Mars 🧗‍♀️ See rock climber Emily Harrington's inspirational message about her free climb of El Capitan 📡 Check out correspondent Kenny Curtis' amazing (and sometimes wacky) show on SiriusXM: Kids Place Live 💌 Email us! [email protected] Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Could there be life on Mars? What can climbing a big rock teach us about perseverance? And when it
0:08.1	comes to professional sports, how has COVID changed the game? I'm Bethany Van Delft and we'll get
0:14.7	into all this and more on today's The 10 News, the show where in the time it takes to recover from Baby Yoda,
0:22.4	cuteness overload, we find out what's up in the world. Okay, let's get into the 10 news.
0:30.5	10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Have you ever imagined what it might be like to visit another planet?
0:43.1	Let's check in with Friends of the Ten Lane Farber to find out how that fantasy might actually become a reality.
0:51.9	As the days get shorter and the nights get colder, people get antsy for warm weather.
0:58.3	In a typical winter season, thousands of people fly south in an effort to avoid the frigid temperatures.
1:05.2	From celebrating Christmas in the Canary Islands to having a happy Hanukkah in Hawaii,
1:12.5	people love spreading the warmth of the holiday season in places that are, well, warm. If you're the kind of person
1:20.5	who dreams of a Toasty Holiday Getaway, then I've got some great news for you. Thanks to recent
1:27.1	scientific achievements, you may be able to travel to an exciting new
1:31.8	holiday hotspot in your lifetime.
1:35.3	Mars!
1:37.2	Landings sequence and initiated.
1:39.8	Scientists and daydreamers alike have long envisioned a future in which people live, work, and even vacation on Mars.
1:49.4	As technology becomes more advanced, this once far-fetched idea is becoming a real possibility.
1:57.9	One company leading the way in interplanetary colonization is Space X. The company
2:04.0	created by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk is focused on making space travel cheaper. SpaceX made history
2:11.2	last month by successfully launching the first NASA certified commercial human spacecraft. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted into space
2:21.4	on November 16th. On board was a group of four astronauts known as the Dragon Crew. To be honest,
2:29.4	pretty rad name. The Dragon Crew will live at the International Space Station for six months.
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