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Luna is a young Chinese American girl who lives with her loving father Chu.  He  works fixing shoes in his garage.  One day, she watches a rocket being launched into space on TV.  Luna  decides to 'reach for the stars'.  She wants to become an astronaut.

As Luna grows up, she enters college and things start to get tough when she begins to chase her dreams.

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One Small Step is a touching and bittersweet story by Taiko Studios, a cross-cultural animation studio based in Los Angeles and Wuhan, China. Directed by Disney alums Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas, the award-winning animated short is Oscar-nominated for the 91st annual Academy Awards. Chesworth describes it as a "love letter to everyone who chased that impossible dream, and the family that supported them through it."

Luna is a vibrant young Chinese American girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut. From the day she witnesses a rocket launching into space on TV, Luna is driven to reach for the stars. In the big city, Luna lives with her loving father Chu, who supports her with a humble shoe repair business he runs out of his garage. As Luna grows up, she enters college, facing adversity of all kinds in pursuit of her dreams.

Read more at Cartoon Brew: From Burbank To Wuhan: Making 'One Small Step' Was A Big Global Collaboration For Taiko Studios.

Watch these animated shorts next: Threads, an animated short by Torill Kove, Alike, If You Fall, and Father and Daughter by Michaël Dudok De Wit.

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One Small Step, an Oscar-nominated animated short | The Kid Should See This

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One Small Step is a touching and bittersweet story by Taiko Studios, a cross-cultural animation studio based in Los Angeles and Wuhan, China. Directed by Disney alums Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas, the award-winning animated short is Oscar-nominated for the 91st annual Academy Awards.

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These small creatures living in peace and harmony on – and inside – a small, hollow planet, far, far away.  They eat Blue String Pudding, and Green Soup harvested from the planet’s volcanic soup wells by the Soup Dragon.

Their name "Clanger" is from the sound made by opening the metal cover of their' crater-like burrows, each of which was covered with an old metal dustbin lid, to protect against meteorites and space junk.

There is others to watch in the series if you enjoy The Clangers!

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In this clip from 2015, space scientist Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock looks into a telescope up into the night sky to find a little blue planet where the Clangers live. The Clangers is a British stop-motion children's series about "small creatures living in peace and harmony on - and inside - a small, hollow planet, far, far away: nourished by Blue String Pudding, and by Green Soup harvested from the planet's volcanic soup wells by the Soup Dragon." It first-aired in 1969 and returned in 2015.

The word "Clanger" is said to derive from the sound made by opening the metal cover of one of the creatures' crater-like burrows, each of which was covered with an old metal dustbin lid, to protect against meteorite impacts (and space debris). In each episode there would be some problem to solve, typically concerning something invented or discovered, or some new visitor to meet.

Here's an older clip: "Small Clanger and Tiny Clanger visiting the soup wells to get soup from The Soup Dragon."

The clip's narration by Oliver Postgate reminds us of Roald Dahl's narration of his audio collection. Highly recommended.

Previously: E=mc² explained in two minutes by Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock. Plus, more stop-motion and more made-for-kids videos.

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The Clangers, a British stop-motion children's series | The Kid Should See This

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In this clip from 2015, space scientist Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock looks into a telescope up into the night sky to find a little blue planet where the Clangers live.

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This rocket that put Hello Kitty into space was made by a 12 year old student from California in the USA.  Her name is Lauren Rojas and she made the Hello Kitty rocket and balloon using a do-it-yourself kit.  If you would like to make one you can buy a rocket from High Altitude Science in America and launch into space.

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We've seen this experiment a few times before, but never with Hello Kitty "catonaut" in a Japanese rocket made by a 12-year-old. And perhaps not with such a glorious pop:

NASA doesn't have a lock on space exploration anymore. Just ask Lauren Rojas, a seventh grader in Antioch, Calif., who recently a balloon to 93,625 feet using a do-it-yourself balloon kit from High Altitude Science ...

The project is a terrific illustration of just how accessible the near-space environment has become. High Altitude Science was founded two years ago by Joseph Maydell, a flight controller for the International Space Station at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, who wanted everyone to experience the beautiful views of the planet that he got to see in the course of his work.

Not only does Maydell sell a kit and a flight computer on his site, but he also includes tutorials to get started with.

From the archives, more views of Earth's curvature.

via Scientific American.

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Hello Kitty goes to space | The Kid Should See This

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We've seen this experiment a few times before, but never with Hello Kitty "catonaut" in a Japanese rocket made by a 12-year-old. And perhaps not with such a glorious pop: NASA doesn't have a lock on space exploration anymore.

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When Thomas the Tank Engine went into space and landed in a cornfield!

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When Thomas the Tank Engine went into space and landed in a cornfield!

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Ron Fugelseth and his 4-year-old child did this, plus one (animated) step more when they sent the kiddo’s favorite toy train 30 kilometres up!

Thomas was lifted by a weather balloon, and Ron used a taped up orange box with a camera and a GPS-equipped phone to record the event.  The train traveled up to see the earth’s curvature and then came falling back down, landing 45 kilometres from where it was launched.

Looks like the train had fun.

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We've seen a lot of videos that send things up into the stratosphere, but Ron Fugelseth and his 4-year-old kid did this, plus one (animated) step more when they sent the kiddo's favorite toy train eighteen miles up!

Lifted by a weather balloon, and accompanied by a taped up orange styrofoam box with an HD camera and a GPS-equipped phone, the train traveled up to see the earth's curvature and then came falling back down, landing 27 miles from where it launched.

Looks like the train had fun.

Thanks, @rogier, kvetchup, and @alexkuhl.

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Eighteen miles above Earth: A Toy Train in Space | The Kid Should See This

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We've seen a lot of videos that send things up into the stratosphere, but Ron Fugelseth and his 4-year-old kid did this, plus one (animated) step more when they sent the kiddo's favorite toy train eighteen miles up!

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Making dinner in space!  What do you think about preparing food inside a spaceship? 

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Making dinner in space!  What do you think about preparing food inside a spaceship? 

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Can you imagine not eating fresh fruit and vegetables for months on end?