I was only in my lounge a few seconds one day last week while doing some home maintenance. A quick glance at the TV my grandson was watching, it was The Clangers.
Later it struck me what I'd seen, it was a NASA type astronaut and one of The Clangers, they were seemingly doing a 'first contact' type handshake.
I've since looked online for Clangers meet NASA and also for Earth finds the Clangers but no joy.
Did The Clangers ever make contact with Planet Earth?
The new Clangers series features the episode "The Visitor" (first aired 2019), in which a human astronaut lands on The Clangers planet.
If you're in the UK, you can watch this episode on BBC iPlayer - it was shown on the CBeebies channel.
The Clangers were visited by astronauts from Earth a few times. In Season 2 "The Tablecloth" an astronaut lands and plants a flag, which is then repurposed by the Clangers as a tablecloth, since their previous tablecloth had been cut up to make overcoats for the Froglets. As you can see though, it is not an American flag, but a composite of the USA and the USSR flags, so the expedition wasn't mounted by NASA as such. In the next episode, "The Rock Collector", another astronaut comes and attempts to collect rock-samples. I guess this is the episode you glimpsed. The Clangers thought the rock samples were rather dull though, and swapped them for some good blue-string pudding. Much nicer!
I suspect you may be recalling that time Clangers appeared on Doctor Who in a scene apparently on Luna (with a NASA-like rover) and made something of a fool out of John Cleese The Master [misremembered that bit].
"Only puppets, you know… for children!"
Or perhaps, just the full epsiode of The Clangers from which that snippet in Doctor Who was drawn. :) You can see an astronaut get face to face with a Clanger for the first time at about the 5:20 mark.
