Kids have some awesome ideas about what space really looks like.
NASA asked students in grades K-12 in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia to imagine "colorful visions of bold astronauts, interplanetary space travel and roving robots" for the 2014 NASA Langley Research Center art contest. This year's theme was "The Future Is Now," and it asked young artists to explore how technology is bringing what was once thought to be fantasy into reality. In a word, their submissions are adorable.
From a colorful spacewalk to somewhat indecipherable sketches of spaceships and planets, these kids have wild imaginations when it comes to the future of space exploration. If these drawings are any indication, NASA's future is in great hands.
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