Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join Science Friday Educate on Friday, October 3, 1:15 ET / 10:15 am PT for an exciting Down To Earth Mission Control Live event!
Join us for our first Mission Control Live! as we meet special guests Melissa Trempe and Natalia Ojeda, authors of the picture book "Ladybug Launch: Inspired by a True Story of Chinitas in Space." Natalia will share her incredible real-life experience as a student whose all-girl class designed an experiment for NASA. They wanted to know if astronauts wanted to grow food in space, could chinitas (ladybugs) go along to keep the pests away? Discover how this creative solution became part of a space shuttle mission in 1999 and learn how young scientists can contribute to space exploration.
Learn more about Down to Earth at ScienceFriday.com/DownToEarth.
Join Science Friday Educate on Friday, October 3, 1:15 ET / 10:15 am PT for an exciting Down To Earth Mission Control Live event!
Join us for our first Mission Control Live! as we meet special guests Melissa Trempe and Natalia Ojeda, authors of the picture book "Ladybug Launch: Inspired by a True Story of Chinitas in Space." Natalia will share her incredible real-life experience as a student whose all-girl class designed an experiment for NASA. They wanted to know if astronauts wanted to grow food in space, could chinitas (ladybugs) go along to keep the pests away? Discover how this creative solution became part of a space shuttle mission in 1999 and learn how young scientists can contribute to space exploration.
Learn more about Down to Earth at ScienceFriday.com/DownToEarth.
