STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And now this. Spend time with kids, and you find they have empathy for the world around them.</s>AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: You sense it in their questions.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Do trees hurt when they sway in the wind?</s>AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: What if the car doesn't want to go where you drive it?</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This is the story of a 5-year-old who worried about the Voyager space probe.</s>TIMOR: Like, what if it gets broken, like, outside of our solar system, and there's nothing to fix it?</s>AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Canadian kid named Timor was so worried he couldn't sleep. So on CBC Radio, astronaut Chris Hadfield reassured him.</s>CHRIS HADFIELD: It's a very tough little spaceship. It's not worried about breaking down and having somebody fixing it. It's worried about exploring.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Hadfield said if Voyager had stayed at home where it's safe, it would've been sad forever.</s>CHRIS HADFIELD: Because it never would have discovered things. I think we're doing exactly what makes Voyager joyful and as happy as it could be. Does that make sense to you?</s>TIMOR: Yes.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Problem solved. Get some sleep.
Former International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield reassures a worried five-year-old boy that the Voyager spacecraft isn't lonely and afraid.