Hey! Did you hear what happened yesterday?

Guess what?! Something absolutely incredible happened yesterday that's making history! Someone who uses a wheelchair actually traveled to space for the very first time! How cool is that?!

Let's break it down!

So, a company called Blue Origin launched a rocket, and on board was a super inspiring person who uses a wheelchair, along with five other folks! They took a fantastic trip right to the edge of space and then safely came back down. It's a huge moment because it shows that space isn't just for a select few; it's for everyone! It really opens up the universe to more people, proving that amazing achievements know no bounds. Pretty awesome, right?

NASA's Pick of the Day

Okay, shifting gears to something else super cool NASA shared that helps us understand our home planet a little better! You know how sometimes we have really long days in summer and really short ones in winter? Those special days are called solstices! And the days when day and night are almost perfectly equal? Those are equinoxes!

NASA's video for yesterday showed how you can actually *see* these events just by looking at Earth from space! Imagine a satellite, way up high, looking down at our planet. It captured a whole year of Earth spinning and traveling around the Sun in just 12 seconds!

What it focused on was the "terminator" – which is just the fancy name for the line that divides the bright, sunny side of Earth from the dark, night side. At the start of the video, during an equinox (back in September 2010), this line was perfectly straight up and down.

But as Earth moved around the Sun, that line started to tilt! When it tilted one way, the northern part of our planet got less sunlight, bringing on winter there (and summer in the south!). That's a solstice! Then, halfway through the video, the line was straight again for the March 2011 equinox. And finally, it tilted the other way, giving the southern part of Earth its winter, and the north its summer!

It's like a cosmic dance showing us exactly why we have seasons, all because our Earth is a bit tilted as it zips around the Sun! Pretty neat, huh? It's proof that even simple observations from space can teach us so much about our spinning home.