Space Racers (Jomaribryan's version)

Space Racers is an American CGI STEM-focused educational animated television series featuring the cadets of the Stardust Space Academy. The series was distributed in the first season for public television by American Public Television, and was produced under the auspicies of Maryland Public Television. The second season of Space Racers debuted in September 2016 as a commercial effort on NBCUniversal's Sprout, since rebranded to Universal Kids. The show follows the Space Racers Cadets as they travel the solar system exploring space through assigned missions. The show features contributions from NASA involving science and space technology education, and also maintains partnerships with the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and U.S. Space Camp.

Plot
Space Racers is an educational animated television series aimed at children 3-6 years old. The main characters - Eagle, Hawk, Robyn, Starling and Raven - are cadets at the Stardust Space Academy, and each episode they discover a series of space-based scientific discoveries. The cadets spend each episode traveling through outer space.

Cast

 * Alicyn Packard as Cadet Robyn
 * Yuri Lowenthal as Cadet Eagle
 * Meyer DeLeeuw as Cadet Hawk
 * Johnny Yong Bosch as Cadet Raven
 * Melissa Hutchison as AVA (the academy AI), Starling (Jr Cadet)
 * Phil Lollar as Dodo (assistant to Vulture), Crane (Headmaster)
 * Joey D'Auria as Vulture (academy Chairman), Coot (faculty - Engineering, Sciences)
 * Danny Katiana as Pigeon (faculty - Coach), Trogon (rocket scientist), Loon (senior chief engineer / officer at Lunar Base Alpha)
 * Katie Leigh as Sojourner, Sandpiper (faculty - astro sciences), Crow (Jr Cadet)
 * Allan Charles Neuwirth as Fizzy Finchfuzz, Giotto Probe
 * Alicyn Packard as Sparrow (Jr Cadet)

Episodes
Main article: List of Space Racers episodes

Development
The series concept was developed by Richard Schweiger, who wanted to create a show based around animated vehicles that travel through space. In 2009, Schweiger and Julian Cohen developed the idea into a feature-film script, which won a screenwriting award. In 2010, Schweiger formed the company that would produce Space Racers, and instead of pursuing a film, decided to turn the concept into a television series. The idea developed into fifty individual 11 minute episodes for broadcast.

Season one of Space Racers consists of 26 half-hour episodes, first airing in 2014. The series was originally distributed by Maryland Public Television and American Public Television. Cake Television is the distributor for the show internationally.

The show's head writer was Allan Neuwirth, its director was Mark Risley, and its executive producers were Brenda Wooding as well as show creators Richard Schweiger and Julian Cohen. Episodes would contain two eleven-minute animated segments, offset by live-action sections between them. The U.S. premiere of the show was on May 2, 2014. The show was also in international syndication, including broadcastings on France 5 and the show's world broadcast debut on February 15, 2014 in New Zealand.

Season two of Space Racers consists of half-hour episodes, first airing on November 5, 2016 on Sprout. The show's head writer was again Allan Neuwirth, its director was Mark Risley, and its executive producers were Michael Matays, Charles Matays, and Matthias Schmitt. Episodes contain two eleven-minute animated segments, offset by interstitials or commercial sections between them. The U.S. premiere of the show was on November 5, 2016. The show is also in international syndication, including broadcastings on France 5.

Collaborations
The Space Racers TV series was produced in collaboration with NASA experts, with input from NASA experts on science-based facts incorporated into the episodes. The show also features NASA scientists and astronauts in live action interstitials. The Space Racers creators have also developed a website where viewers can find a preschool science curriculum on space science, which was developed in collaboration THIRTEEN productions (WNET) and SiiTE. SpaceRacers.com has a section for family-based education as well for educators and parents. Special screenings of episodes have been held at both the Kennedy Space Center and the Wallops NASA Visitor Center, in collaboration with Maryland Public Television. In July 2014, the Virginia Air and Space Center opened a Space Racers-themed exhibit.

Merchandise
Space Racers merchandise was introduced in November 2018. There are vehicle toys, plush toys, T-Shirts, and Activity and Coloring Books. Space Racers merchandise is available for view at www.spaceracerstoys.com

Also, the DVD releases are available in stores since 2015.

Broadcast
In the United States of America it airs on Universal Kids.

In Canada it airs on TVO Kids.

In Malaysia it airs on TV2

Awards
Space Racers has won several awards in children's broadcasting including the American Public Television (APT) Programming Excellence Award in 2014 and a Parents’ Choice Recommended Award in 2015.