When R2-D2 and Luke Skywalker try to rescue Princess Leia from Darth Vader who has imprisoned her inside the Death Star, Obi-Wan sacrifices his own life to hold off the Empire's forces.
Reviews the history of spacecraft, discusses the great speeds space vehicles can reach, explains how people become astronauts, and includes a description of a space shuttle.
Photographs, drawings, and illustrations provide facts, stories, and activities about the solar systems and possible life on planets beyond the earth's solar system.
Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator.
Pong, worried about going to live with her parents on the International Space Station, gets a grand welcome from the Gizmos--other children who live on the orbiting research laboratory.
Discusses how recent innovations such as the new telescopes are affecting the study of astronomy, our understanding of the universe, and the search for new galaxies and the origins of life.
