01x07 - Earth Mission to Moon/Mindy's Moon Bounce House

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[together] Ready! Jet! Go!

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

♪ That's his name ♪

♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

♪ He'll rocket to fame ♪

♪ When he arrived, he created a buzz ♪

♪ 'Cause there was no house ♪

♪ And then there was, he said ♪

- ♪ People of Earth! You ain't seen nothing yet! ♪

♪ I'm from Bortron , and my name is Jet! ♪

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

♪ That's his name ♪

♪ He looks like us ♪

♪ But he isn't the same ♪

- ♪ I'm a space tripper and a galaxy crosser ♪

♪ My parents brought me here in a flying saucer ♪

- ♪ And just to prove it was a fact ♪

♪ He flew them out to space and back ♪

♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

[spaceship whirring]

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

[together] Ready! Jet! Go!

- ♪ He showed up, and now it's a blast ♪

♪ Looks like the future really got here fast ♪

- ♪ Nice to meet you, human race ♪

♪ Tell me all about the place ♪

- Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

all: Ready! Jet! Go!

[light jazzy music]

♪ ♪

[buzzer blares]

- Oh, it's my cousin Zerk calling me.

Hey, cuz, as we say here on Earth.

- Uh, Jet, Jet, Jet?

Can you hear me, Jet?

I'm calling from Bortron .

- Got it. I can hear you, Zerk.

- Okay, I have a class assignment about Earth.

When was the first time an Earth person

landed on Bortron ?

- Hmm, I'm not sure.

Hey, Mindy?

Do you know when the first Earthie landed on Bortron ?

- Jet, tell your cousin that no one from Earth

ever went to Bortron .

The only place they've been is to the moon.

It's true.

- [chuckles]

Okay, well, thanks, Mindy.

- Oh, thanks, thanks for the information, girl from Earth.

Bye, Jet. Talk to you soon, Jet.

Bye, Jet.

- Bye, Zerk.

- Hi, Sydney. Hi, Sean.

Glad you're here. I have a question.

When did the first Earthie land on Bortron ?

Long ago, right?

- I told him, Earth people have only been to the moon.

- Mindy, you're absolutely right.

Jet, Earthies, as you call us, have only been to the moon.

- [laughs] Good joke, Sydney.

Wait, really?

- Really, humans have never been to Bortron or any planet.

- Wow.

- Not even Mars, but robots and rovers have.

I'll probably be the first official astronaut there.

- Told you, Jet. I know a lot.

- When the first two "Earthies" went to the moon,

it was a huge deal.

- Yeah, most of the people on Earth watched it on television.

- Huh, well, the great news about all of this

is that Earthies have so much outer space to explore.

- You're right, Jet.

I can't wait to land on the moons and the planets

just like the astronauts did around years ago.

- Whoa!

The moon landing was that long ago?

- Uh-huh. The year was .

Three brave astronauts flew into space.

Then, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon.

- Oh, you know a lot about this, Sean.

- Yep, because I love it.

It's why I want to be a space explorer.

Those first astronauts are my heroes.

- Nice!

Hey, Face?

- Face , ready to assist you.

- Face, I'm wondering if you could show us

when the first Earth people walked on the moon.

- Ha ha! Of course.

Here's a quick look.

- Neil Armstrong stepped down off the moon lander

not sure if it was going to be rocky,

or sandy like a beach or who knows?

Mindy, you're going to be Buzz Aldrin.

He's a big, tall astronaut

who also walked on the moon.

- I am Buzz Oatmeal.

I'm walking on the moon.

[laughter]

- Actually, Mindy, it's Buzz Aldrin.

[gasps] I have an idea.

We should act out the moon landing.

We can pretend to be astronauts from back then

and fly to the moon in our own rocket ship.

- Or really fly there in my family saucer.

I love this idea.

I bet my mom will take us.

- Really?

We could go on a trip to the moon the old-fashioned way

like Neil Armstrong did?

Finally!

- Wait.

I can't go to the real moon.

I'm not supposed to go past Jet's yard.

- Don't worry, Mindy.

We'll find a job for you here on Earth.

- So, we can just do what the astronauts did back then.

Jump in our saucer and zoom to the moon, right?

- Actually, Jet, the astronauts had to take a huge, tall rocket.

all: Whoa!

- And it took them three days to get to the moon.

- [stammers] Three days?

It takes my family three Earth minutes to get to the moon!

- Well, the astronauts didn't have interstellar overdrive

like your saucer has.

- Too bad.

They should have called me.

- Back then, it took a lot of scientists

with big, old-fashioned computers and machines

to get one rocket up to the moon.

- [laughs]

Oh, wow, so many people for one rocket?

- My mom told me that the astronauts weren't really sure

about what they'd find on the moon.

Or if they could even land or walk on it,

or if they would float away or fall off.

- Okay, you ready?

Let's start our pretend mission to the moon.

all: Let's do it!

Excelsior!

- The saucer of--ooh, I mean rocket ship is ready to launch.

- Great!

So, Mindy, remember, you and Carrot

have a job called mission control--

- And you said it's really important.

Kind of like I'm the boss.

[laughter]

- Should we go over your job again?

- No, thanks. Got it.

I count down, say "blast off,"

tell you to land on the moon,

then take off,

and say you made it back to Earth!

- Perfect.

And here's a walky-talky to talk to us astronauts up in space.

- I love this walky and talky.

Mr. Carrot and I can handle this job no problem.

- I agree, boss.

- Then, it's go time.

- We're getting onto "Apollo " spacecraft.

Three brave astronauts.

- And one brave space pet.

Sunspot!

- Let's all try to sit back with our feet up,

'cause that's how the astronauts did it way back then.

[saucer beeps]

Mission control Mindy, come in.

Can you hear me? Time to count down.

- Roger, copy that.

Ten, nine, eight,

seven, six, five,

four, three, two, one.

Blast off!

all: Blast off!

- "Apollo " has blasted off

and is flying over the amazing Earth headed for the moon.

all: To the moon!

[cheering]

- [laughs]

I love being a pretend Earth astronaut from long ago.

- Me too!

All systems are go, Sean.

Be calm.

- I bet Neil Armstrong was probably nervous too,

but he didn't let that stop him.

- You're right, Sydney. I'm okay.

Just sometimes being in a cramped space

makes me feel weird.

- I used to feel weird when I flew with Mom and Dad.

Then I realized we're not in a cramped place.

We're in huge, amazing outer space.

Like Neil what's-his-name.

- Armstrong.

And, Jet, you're right, it's like Commander Cressida says.

A kid's place is exploring space.

- Thanks, Jet. Thanks, Sydney.

Yeah, our moon mission is a go.

- All systems go, Mindy?

- All systems are go.

Not really sure what that means,

but we have yummy cookies and some kind of orange space drink.

[slurps]

- Oh, there's your moon.

[cheering]

- The real "Apollo " slowed down

above the moon before it landed.

- Ooh, roger. Copy that.

[saucer whirrs]

- When Neil and Buzz finally landed on the moon,

they said, "The Eagle has landed."

They called their lunar lander the Eagle.

- Isn't an eagle a kind of lizard?

- No, it's a bird that flies, like a spaceship.

- Oh, got it.

Makes more sense.

- Mission control Mindy says

you have permission to land on the moon.

- [man speaks indistinctly]

The eagle has landed.

[engines whoosh]

all: Whoo-hoo! The Eagle has landed!

both: The Eagle has landed!

Yay! Whoo-hoo!

- So when Apollo landed, Neil was first off the spaceship,

then Buzz.

But, Jet, you and I can go together after Neil.

I mean, Sean.

[beeps]

Oh, and Sunspot, of course.

- That's one small step for man...

- And this is one small step for kids.

One gigantic leap for everyone everywhere.

- Yeah! We're Earth astronauts!

- Huh.

Actually, the surface of the moon is kind of hard.

Not sandy like Neil Armstrong thought it might be.

- And we're not falling off it, either.

- [squeaks]

- I'm a moon monster! Argh!

- Good one, Sydney.

[yipping]

That must be from the Apollo mission to the moon.

- Wow.

Look what I brought! Mindy's soccer ball.

- Cool! Moon soccer.

- Guys, the original astronauts didn't play soccer up here.

- Yeah, but maybe they would have if they were kids.

- Or if they had a soccer ball.

[upbeat music]

[laughter]

♪ ♪

- Moon soccer rules!

- Time to head home, astronauts.

- I love your moon.

- Look! Earth rise!

♪ ♪

all: Wow.

- How about a picture, kids?

[camera shutter clicks]

- [snoring]

- Mission control Mindy here.

You guys can take off now.

- Thanks, Mindy.

[adventurous music]

[jet engines whooshing]

♪ ♪

Splash down!

We made it back to Earth. Whoo-hoo!

- A successful moon mission. Hooray!

- That was so cool.

I can't wait to be a real astronaut someday

like my hero Neil.

- Mission control Mindy says you did great, astronauts.

And no one got sick.

I think.

- Thanks, Mindy. You did a great job too.

And we brought you something.

- Ooh. This is so cool.

Thanks!

Hey, is that my soccer ball?

- Oh, no. I'm really sorry, Mindy.

I guess I left your ball on the moon.

- What?

Jet,

you owe me one soccer ball and one trip to the moon.

- As sure as I'm from Bortron , I promise both.

- I remember seeing a video of parades

for the Apollo astronauts when they came back to Earth.

Everyone was so excited to see them.

- Hmm. A parade?

[jubilant marching band music]

[cheering]

♪ ♪

- Did you ever sit up in your bed

and think about what it would be like if your bed could fly?

Hi, I'm astronomer Amy Mainzer,

and I'm here with Christian Gelzer

who's the historian at NASA's

Armstrong Flight Research Center.

So, Christian, this thing didn't really fly, did it?

- It really did.

It's the lunar landing research vehicle

and it was used to train the "Apollo" astronauts

for landing on the moon.

- I guess you can't really go to school

to learn how to land on the moon, can you?

- Not in , ', or ', no.

It's pretty hard.

- This thing had an unusual nickname.

It's sometimes called the flying bedstead.

Why's it called the flying bedstead?

- Well, in part, because I think some people think

it looks like a flying bedstead or a bed frame,

and in part because it actually flew.

It would take off vertically.

There's a jet engine not like this in most airplanes

but aligned vertically,

so it would take off vertically,

and then it had thrusters at the corners

that allowed the pilot to be able to roll,

maneuver, cant, move forward and back,

and then bring the vehicle down and land vertically,

much like the actual lunar module would.

- That's pretty cool. - I would say.

- Was it hard for the astronauts to learn how to fly this thing?

- The first couple of flights, it's difficult,

but Armstrong's comment afterward was

"It felt like I had done it before,"

and it was because of flying this.

- Christian, do you think I could fly it?

- Um, I'm afraid not, Amy.

This one's been parked for awhile

and there's no jet engine in there anymore that works.

- I guess I'll just have to sit on my bed

and imagine that my bed can land on the moon.

- You and me both.

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

[rubber squeaking]

- That looks like fun.

Take a look at Mindy's yard, Jet.

- Wow, she's got a spaceship.

I thought Mindy was too young for space travel.

- It's a bounce house for Mindy's birthday party later.

[upbeat percussive music]

- ♪ My name is Mindy ♪

♪ It rhymes with Cindy ♪

♪ I'm Mindy Melendez ♪

♪ Hey, let's be friend-es ♪

♪ My friends Sean and Sydney ♪

♪ They came down the chimney ♪

♪ My friend Jet Propulsion ♪

♪ Jumped in the ocean ♪

♪ Jet is a robot ♪

♪ His pet's name is Sunspot ♪

♪ He looks just like a bunny ♪

♪ But he's way more funny ♪

♪ Hey let's be friend-es ♪

♪ I'm Mindy Melendez ♪

[laughs]

- So that's what we do on birthdays.

There's a party with your friends

and cake, candles, balloons.

- Wow, just like on Bortron ,

except we also have that thing like a box

with something that's a surprise inside

that you give to someone to open.

- Right. We call that a present.

- Oh, another fabulous Earth word.

So what present is Mindy giving us for her birthday?

- Actually, on Earth, we give presents to the birthday kid,

so Sidney and I are making a foam rocket

as a present for Mindy.

- You give presents?

Wow, Earth is full of surprises.

- Hi, Mindy. Happy birthday!

- Thanks.

Hi, Sean.

Hi, Sydney. - [beeps]

- Hi, Jet.

Come on up and bounce with me.

[all cheering]

- Whee! Look at me!

I'm flipping.

Isn't this great?

- It sure is.

We're bouncing on the moon, just like real astronauts.

- Well, technically, not like the real astronauts, of course.

This bounce house isn't exactly like the moon.

- Why not? What's the difference?

- Well, on the moon, with every jump,

you could go much higher than you go on Earth.

Even higher than you could bounce in this bounce house.

- Higher than the bounce house?

How could that be?

- Because the moon has less gravity than Earth.

- That makes no sense.

How can less of something help me go higher?

- Mindy, do you know what gravity is?

- Of course I do.

Everyone does.

Gravity is what grabs you down to Earth,

but I don't know exactly how that part works.

- Come on, Mindy.

Maybe I can show you how gravity works.

- [beeps]

[barks]

- Okay, here's the ball, right?

- I'm with you so far.

- And do you know what's going to happen

when I toss this ball in the air?

- Yep, it's going to land on your head.

- Right. I mean, wrong.

Oops, okay.

Do you know why that happened?

- Because you can't catch?

- No, it's because of gravity.

- Right. Gravity. Got it.

My turn. Catch, Sunspot.

[giggling]

Sunspot doesn't let a little gravity

stop him from having fun.

- Hmm, I guess gravity's not so easy to explain.

Maybe Face can help.

- Good idea. Hey, Face.

- Face ready to assist you.

Hello, kids. What can I do for you?

- We were wondering if you could explain gravity to us.

- Oh, gravity.

That's a very heavy subject.

Just kidding. Hey, lighten up.

Ha ha ha ha!

[laughter]

- He's pretty funny for a microchip.

- But seriously, gravity is a force

that pulls lighter things toward heavier ones.

It can pull a planet toward the sun,

or a moon toward a planet.

It even pulls you toward Earth.

- I guess the Earth is a lot heavier than I am.

- Mm-hmm.

The moon is much smaller and lighter than Earth,

so it has much less gravity.

You could jump a lot higher on the moon

because the gravity doesn't pull you down as hard.

Get it?

- Got it. Thanks, Face.

- You are welcome.

Oh, and happy birthday, Mindy.

- Huh? How'd you know?

- Hey, word gets around.

[beeps]

- So now do you understand what gravity is?

- Sure, gravity is something

that pulls lighter things to heavier ones,

and--and I don't remember the rest of it,

and now I'm going to go back in my bounce house

and bounce higher than gravity.

- I think it's time for us to go, Sean.

I finished working on Mindy's present.

- Yeah, she'll definitely learn about gravity

when she plays with the foam rocket we're making.

What goes up must come down.

- Hmm.

A present for Mindy.

Hey, Mindy.

I just thought of a birthday present I can make you.

Do you really want to jump like you're on the moon?

- You bet your backpack I do.

- Then I have an idea. Watch this.

[beeps]

[whirring]

Ta-dah!

Your Bortron moon gravity bracelet!

When you wear this, you'll be able to walk

like you're really on the moon.

- Whoa!

Thank you!

I've always wanted one of these,

even though I just found out it exists.

- Here, let me put it on your wrist.

Okay.

First, let me explain how it works.

There's a button here that--

- Got it. This button, right?

[beeps]

Whee!

[giggles]

- That's the one.

Well, I guess you've got it all figured out.

- Yep!

Let's go show Sean and Sydney.

Hey, Sean. Hey, Sydney.

Look what Jet gave me for my birthday.

Isn't it great?

- Mindy! What are you doing up there?

- Jet made me a Bortron moon gravity bracelet.

Now I can really walk like I'm on the moon.

- That shouldn't be possible.

- Yep, it is.

See?

- It is a really nice present.

- Yeah, but Mindy, it's time to come down now.

Your party starts in a little while.

- Nope, I'm all done with gravity.

All it does is grab me down.

- Well, at least she finally understands what gravity is.

Guess I'm a pretty good teacher.

You know, Mindy, if you miss your birthday party,

I guess you'll have to wait a whole Earth year

for another one.

- Yeah.

- That's kind of a long time.

- Hmm, I guess that's true.

- Don't you want to come play with the present we made you?

- That does look like fun.

Okay, I'll come down.

- Hooray!

- Hey, is this button supposed to come off?

- Not really.

Oops.

Uh-oh. She's going higher.

- Whee!

Now I barely have any gravity at all.

- We've got to get her down.

- I'll handle this.

- Hi down there.

- Hi, Mindy! How's the weather up there?

- Fantastic. I'm never coming down.

- Hmm, she says she's not coming down.

Isn't that great?

- Actually, it's not great.

Her friends are coming over soon.

- Her party is on the ground.

- Oh, I guess gravity is one of those rules

Earthies are supposed to follow.

- Hmm, maybe if we get her home,

she'll see her bounce house and her birthday cake

and she'll want to come down for her party.

- But how can we get her down the street

without people noticing a floating girl?

- [grunting]

- [yips]

- Wait, I think Sunspot has an idea.

- [beeps]

- Hey, Mindy, you like playing pretend games, don't you?

Why don't you pretend to be a kite?

- What? A kite that flies?

- Sure.

See? There's a pretty ribbon tail.

Let's fly home.

- [chuckles] This is kind of fun.

- Great, let's go back to your house.

- Huh, good thing no one's out in the street right now.

- Yeah, it would be pretty hard to explain.

- Nothing new to see around here, right, Cody?

I guess we'll have to give the detective business

a break for today.

Let me record that in the official detective notebook.

[growls]

[gasps] Cody, we've got a case.

I better call our assistant.

Mom! Hey, Mom.

I just saw little Mindy Melendez floating by on a kite string.

- I'm so glad you have such a wonderful imagination,

Mitchell.

- No, Mom, really, believe me.

I've got a terrible imagination.

I'm glad you saw that, Cody.

Cody?

We've got to work on your detective skills.

- Okay, Mindy, let's get you down.

- Great.

- [grunts]

I can't unwind the string.

- How are you going to get me down?

- We'll think of something.

[whispers] I can't think of anything.

[beeping]

- I think you Earthies like to say,

"What goes up must come down."

So here goes.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Whee! [giggles]

- Oh! Mindy, are you okay?

- Sure I am. Let's do it again.

- Again?

That's an Earth word that's starting to make me very tired.

- [whimpers]

- Okay, but let's have another adventure soon.

- Let's just be glad this one ended well.

You're down from the tree before your party,

and no one noticed you were flying.

- That's true, and guess what.

Now I really know what gravity is, and I like it.

With gravity, I can stay on the ground

along with my friends and all my presents,

like this foam rocket.

- Uh-oh, now it's stuck.

- Don't worry, Jet.

Like we say here on Earth,

what goes up must come down.

Even if we have to wait for a strong breeze.

- Maybe I didn't see anything.

I'm sure nothing strange is happening in Mindy's yard.

[whooshing]

Is that Jet Propulsion flying in Mindy's yard?

Mom!

- When you see a bolt of lightning flash across the sky,

it always takes a few seconds

before you hear the sound of thunder.

Why is that?

Hi, I'm astronomer Amy Mainzer.

The reason it takes a few seconds

for thunder to reach your ears after you see lightning

is because the speed of sound is slower than the speed of light.

The speed of sound is fast.

It's about miles an hour on the ground.

And that's very fast.

It's certainly faster than any car you can drive

and even faster than a typical airplane flying through the air,

but what would happen if you could travel

faster than the speed of sound?

On October , ,

an Air Force pilot named Chuck Yeager

flew a plane that looks just like this one

faster than the speed of sound.

Nobody knew what was going to happen when he did that,

but they found out it makes a really loud noise.

It's called a sonic boom.

It's basically a shockwave of air exploding outward

as the plane goes faster than the speed of sound,

and that's also called Mach .

After Captain Yeager landed his plane safely on the ground,

it opened up a whole new world of research.

A regular airplane flies around miles an hour.

That's slower than the speed of sound.

But nowadays, it's not uncommon for special aircraft

to be able to fly faster than Mach .

Sonic booms and thunder are basically the same thing.

They're shockwaves of air that are smashing together

and making a really loud sound,

so the next time you see lightning and hear thunder,

just think about how cool it would be

to be able to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Whoosh!

- ♪ Jet Propulsion ♪

[together] Ready! Jet! Go!

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- Jet Propulsion! - Jet Propulsion!

- Jet Propulsion!

[together] Ready! Jet! Go!