Heads Up! Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

How Do I Become an Astronaut?

28 mins

We visit the Johnson Space Centre in Houston to meet astronauts training for their flights into space. We tour the international space station, learn how to make dinner on the space shuttle, and find out about blasting off.

Episode 2

Why Is the Sun so Hot?

Episode 3

Where's Our Place in Space?

Episode 4

How Do We Get Around in Space?

Episode 5

What Are Shooting Stars?

28 mins

Rocks from space fall to Earth every day. Called meteoroids, these rocks' are mostly very small pebbles that drift our way from the asteroid belt beyond Mars.

Episode 6

How Cold Is Pluto?

Episode 7

Why Do Some Planets Have Rings?

28 mins

Fly through the rings of Saturn aboard the Cassini spacecraft and have a snowball fight among the billions of particles circling the most beautiful planet. Saturn is not the only planet with rings, all the giant worlds in our solar system have them and they're all different.

Episode 8

Why Do Stars Twinkle?

Episode 9

Is Earth the Only Planet with Water?

Episode 10

When Can I Go to Mars?

Episode 11

Is Anyone out There?

Episode 12

Why Do Comets Have Tails?

28 mins

Join us as we fly right through the tail of a comet onboard the Stardust spacecraft.

Episode 13

Why Are Planets Round?

28 mins

This is a story about gravity. We learn that gravity is a force that works everywhere, even in space and it always pulls towards the centre of an object.