Okay, vision kids.

Are you ready?# Three, two, one, blast off.

Kid Vision Space Adventures vehicles in space.# Hi, it's Miss Penny and today we are at the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex to find out# how astronauts travel to space and what kind of vehicles they use to get there.

Here on Earth, we# use cars, buses, boats, and airplanes to travel from place to place.

But what kind of vehicles# do we use in space?

When I think about space, I think about rockets.

Rockets are powerful# vehicles that carry astronauts into space.

A rocket needs lots of power to push up and away# from the Earth.

That's why rockets carry so much fuel.

When the fuel burns, hot gases rush out of# the bottom of the rocket.

The rocket pushes the gases down and the gases push the rocket up.

This# is called thrust.

The Key Vision kids and I had a chance to make our own rockets.

Well, hello# everybody.

My name is Jenna and I'm a member of the Steam Team.

Steam stands for science,# technology, engineering, art, and math.

So, we add creativity to everything about STEM.# Super fun.

And today we're gonna do our very own rocket launch.

Have you guys ever seen a rocket# launch before?

Okay.

Well, today we are going to do our special own chemical a rocket [music]# launch using something I call film canisters.

Do any of you know what a film canister is?# Okay.

You'll definitely have to ask your parents maybe a little bit later or Miss Penny, but a# film canister [music] was used back in the day with digital camera.

You'd put this brown strip# called film.

Today it's going to be our rocket.

You see over here we have our lovely rocket# garden.

And to send rockets into space like that, how do you guys think NASA does it?

Like fume and# stuff in here, chemicals.

So they create a very powerful force using chemistry [music] and they# aim all that force going downward.

Can you guys push downward for me against the launch pad?

Then# eventually it builds and it builds and it builds until it's able to lift up rockets all the way# up into space.

And it's all because of chemistry.

So today we have something called Alka-Seltzer.# Alka-Seltzer is a medicine used for painterly leaf, but today it's going to be our fuel for our# rocket.

We're going to add a little bit of water.

Oh, and what starts to happen?

Oh, it's it's# moving by itself.

It starts to get dissolving and it's creating [music] some gas.

So that's# what we're going to do.

I have five rockets here and I'm going to give you guys each a [music]# piece of Alka-Seltzer.

You're going to break it up into some smaller pieces and then we're going to# get ready for launch.

Pretty cool.

So go ahead.

Here's your piece.

It's creating gas.

And the gas# is what we're going to use to launch the rocket.

Exactly.

Right.

Just Just like how NASA, they# use liquid propellant, liquid [music] hydrogen, and liquid oxygen.

They can ignite those to create# a powerful force.

It's all melting.

And so here it's dissolving.

It's forming into a gas.# That's the gas that's going to fuel our film canister.

So go ahead.

We're going to break# those up.

And you can each pick a canister and start putting the pieces in there.

going to expand# as the gas just [music] how we see the gas here that gas is going to expand and expand till it# creates such a powerful force.

We're going to flip the rocket upside down and then for every# action [music] there is an equal and opposite reaction.

That's a guy named Isaac Newton's third# law of motion and that is at the heart of sending rockets [music] into space.

So we aim all the# force going downward and then what does it do everyone?

It blastes it up.

It eventually builds# until it lifts it all the way up into space.

So obvious bubbles are going to build up and move# the canister.

Exactly.

Right.

Typically a launch you [music] have to be at least three miles away# from the launch pad just because of how loud it can get.

And they also NASA can release millions# of gallons of water so that the [music] sound travels through the water instead of through# the air or it would be damaging to our ears.

All right guys, you ready?

Now we can pretend.# Now these are going to go pretty high.

But NASA when they do it, like I told you guys earlier,# they can't use Alka-Seltzer and water because they need a way more powerful force.

All# right, here we go.

Let's do our first rocket.

So, I'm going to add that water and you're# going to see it's [music] going to start to get fizzy.

So, we're going to lock# that gas in.

You guys ready?

Here we go.

And pop goes the rocket.

Now, it's a satellite# in space.

All right, let's do our next one.

Here we go, you guys.

We're going to lock it in.

Five,# four, three.

Chemistry was at the heart of sending our rockets up in the air and just how they# send NASA's rockets into space.

I had a chance to see an actual rocket launch at the Kennedy# Space Center.

It was so exciting and so cool.

For many years, astronauts traveled to space on# vehicles called space shuttles.

Space shuttles were very special because they could launch like# a rocket and return to Earth like an airplane.

Space shuttles carried [music] astronauts,# equipment, and supplies into orbit around the Earth.

They helped build and service the# International Space Station and launch important scientific missions.

NASA flew 135 shuttle# missions before the shuttle program ended in 2011.

But not all space vehicles carry people.

These# special vehicles are called rovers.

Rovers travel across the surface of other planets and the# moon, collecting information for scientists.

Mars rovers have cameras, tools, and other# instruments that help scientists learn about the red planet.

Because Mars is millions of miles# away, scientists send commands from Earth and wait for the rover to respond.

It's a little like# driving a remote control car from another planet.

Today we learned about some amazing vehicles# in space.

Rockets help us leave the Earth.

Space shuttles helped astronauts travel and# work in orbit around the Earth.

And rovers help us explore distant worlds.

Maybe one day you will# travel in or design the next great space vehicle.