outer space

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.

Illustrations and text describe how humans have tried to learn more about space and some of the equipment and vehicles used to do this.

Briefly explains the work of astronauts, scientists who travel on the space shuttle to study outer space and to conduct experiments.

Charlie Bucket, having won Willie Wonka's chocolate factory, has gone to collect his family in the great glass elevator, but things go wrong on the return to the factory and Charlie, his parents, two sets of grandparents, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space.

Presents a guide to the solar system, featuring photographs, illustrations, and descriptions of the solar system as a whole, each of the nine planets, comets, asteroids, and meteorites. The sun and other stars; Telescopes and space probes; Saturn and Uranus; Neptune and Pluto;Mercury and Venus; Mars; Jupiter; Human space exploration;Galaxies and the universe; Earth and earth's moon.

Text and over one thousand illustrations offer information on space exploration, covering its history, flight, permanent exploration, visiting other planets, applied astronautics, and more. Includes glossary.

Contains 300 alphabetically-arranged entries, each from one to four pages in length, that provide information about various aspects of astronomy and space exploration, covering a period ranging from the "Big Bang" in 15-20 billion B.C. into the twenty-first century.

Living, eating, sleeping and washing in space.

Jed thinks he knows everything about outer space until something strange lands in his yard.

Brief introduction to the Hubble space telescope. Includes pictures taken by Hubble.