Out of this world experience: 9-year-old Sadie meets her Nasa astronaut hero

Have you ever wished you could meet a real-life astronaut and find out a bit more about life in space?

Well that's exactly what nine-year-old Sadie got to do with Nasa astronaut and Artemis II Capsule Communicator Dr Stanley G Love.

Last year Sadie decided to write to people involved in the Artemis mission - which aims to return humans to the Moon.

To her surprise, she got a response back from astronaut Dr Stanley G Love, who now works at Nasa's Mission Control Center, talking directly to astronauts in space.

But now she's had one thing better than a letter - a video chat with the astronaut himself.

Sadie - who wants to be an astronaut when she's older - told Dr Love that she loved watching the Artemis mission in action.

She said: "It was amazing, just to see a rocket go up."

Dr Love said: "Part of our job as astronauts it to inspire the next generation of space explorers, and what better way than to respond to a kid with honest questions and honest curiosity about the universe we live in."

He was also really happy that he got to speak with Sadie, as he says "often I send these letters off into the vacuum and I never hear anything back".

In her original letter to Nasa, Sadie asked important questions like "Do you have any BFFs?" and "Are there aliens in space?".

Dr Stanley G Love was able to reveal a bit more about what life is like at Nasa.

"All the people on a spacecraft crew are each other's BFFs", Stanley replied.

He also said that nobody really knows if there are aliens in space, but that he "didn't see any on our flight".

Have you ever written a letter to one of your heroes? Did you get a response? Let us know in the comments below.