Robot Astronaut Floating In Outer Space

There is no up or down on this page. The robot floats with both arms stretched out to the sides and its stubby legs hanging below it, the way anything does when there is nothing to stand on. A clear bubble helmet covers its whole head, drawn as a single dome line with a rim across the brow and a round port on each side.

Inside the helmet the face is large and friendly: two oversized round eyes with highlights in them and a small line of a mouth underneath. One antenna pokes up through the top of the dome and ends in a ball, which is a nice reminder that this is a machine in a helmet rather than a person in a suit.

The body is a plain box with a blank rectangle on the front and four bolts at its corners. Arms and legs are built from ribbed segments ending in wide mitts and boots. Because the whole figure is made of large simple pieces, it suits a young child working with thick crayons.

Twelve outlined stars are spread around the figure at different sizes, near the edges and up in the corners. They are the only other thing on the sheet. All that open paper around the robot is what sells the idea of deep space.