D: I wish I was in the sky – in space.
Me: Why?
D: I would LOVE to see the spacemans. How do you get back into Earth when you’re in space?
Do you have to stay there if you go into space?
Me: No because you’d go in a rocket – you’d just turn the rocket around and go back to Earth.
D: How can the rocket get back down if the world is just like a big ball and REALLY, REALLY hard and it can’t get through?
Me: What do you mean – it doesn’t need to go through the Earth – just land on it.
D: No, I MEAN… You know how the Earth is hard?
Me: Yes.
D: Well how can the rocket go back into a country if the Earth is a big ball and SO hard?
Me: Do you mean if the rocket is one side of the Earth in space and the country it’s going back to is on the other side? It would just go AROUND – like a bird. It doesn’t need to go through.
D: Really, really close mum, good try. That’s not what I mean!
Me: How about you show me what you mean on your planets poster when we go upstairs?
D: No, I’ll draw you a picture to show you what I mean…
Explanation of meaning – Nov 2012
D: That’s the Earth and they’re all stars around it. That’s the rocket [bottom], and it’s going back down to Earth. How can it go through when the Earth is really hard?
Me: Ahh! Yes, sorry – the rocket must turn around again just before it reaches the Earth and go in backwards, so it lands on its flat bit! Is that what you mean, because there’s a pointy bit on the top of the rocket?
D: Yes!
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