outer space

Poems about the earth, moon, sun, and stars.

Impey Barbicane, president of an elite Baltimore Gun Club in the years following the Civil War, suggests the members build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon, but things get out of control when an adversary wagers against the project, and a volunteer lobbies to make the mission a manned flight.

American space scientists, science fiction writers, and visionary artists describe the solar system as it may be after it is explored.

Explains present and future methods and technology used for the exploration of space and the search for life on other planets.

Details the initiation of the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990 and the repair and servicing missions which followed, and explains the telescope's role in answering questions about the universe.

Learn about the planets that are a part of our solar system.

Characters from the Disney Pixar films introduce children to the world of space, providing information on planets, stars, universes and galaxies, astronomy, and space exploration.

Presents one hundred illustrated topic panels, each with ten key facts about space, covering the Earth, sun, moon, planets, stars, the universe, astronomy, and space travel.

Contains facts, research information, and statistics on the solar system, covering astronomers, the sun and planets, asteroids, meteors, comets, stars, the universe, and space exploration, with photographs, charts, and illustrations.