The "Story Time From Space" program will take storytime out of this world.
The project was created by Patricia Tribe, an educator and the former director of education at Space Center Houston, and astronaut Benjamin Alvin Drew Jr. The books are delivered to the International Space Station, then the astronauts record themselves reading the books and the video is made available on the initiative’s webpage and YouTube channel.
The project came to life after Tribe did some research on literacy and science skills in the US.
She realized that it is necessary to improve both skills for kids, so the educator decided to create something that would help combine both, science and reading, into one and make it more accessible.
Since the project was launched a couple of years ago, many other stories have been told from space which can be accessed on the project’s website.