I love these letters sent to the American Museum of Natural History by wannabe space explorers from the 1950s. They are so wonderfully naive and full of hope, some of them really funny, others quite sad in hindsight.
One of the things I loved about the AMNH’s Beyond Planet Earth exhibition was a seemingly gimmicky, but quite surprising device: a machine that allows you to sniff what the Moon smells like! It was… weird.
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This adorable little astronomer knows the solar system. He loves magnetic fields and can recognise Neil deGrasse Tyson. He knows that Pluto is a dwarf planet. He knows the names of Pluto’s moons. It’s like a supernova of cute.
