Six-year-old Adam King, from Cork, who has brittle bones, spoke of his Nasa ambitions on RTE’s The Late Late Toy Show (Andres Poveda/PA)
The idea was so popular that An Post turned Adam’s creation into a postal stamp and it was then designed as a Valentine’s Day card.
On the show, Adam said his dream was to be a Capcom astronaut as he had “brissle bones” and wouldn’t be able to be an astronaut that goes to Space.
The six-year-old was then starstruck when International Space Station commander and astronaut Chris Hadfield reached out and had a video call with the entire family before Christmas.