Train like an astronaut

Fitness Tests for children from NASA

Michael May, the main character in my new children’s book May’s Moon, wants to be the first child astronaut!

He enters a NASA competition to be the first child into space and has to go through the same sort of tests and exercises that real astronauts do. These include trying to perform tasks in a giant pool wearing a spacesuit and being spun round in a g-force simulator to see if he will be able to withstand a space rocket launch.

Have you ever thought abo...