This book tells the story of rockets, from the invention of rockets in China nearly two thousand years ago to their initiation as fearsome weapons of war to space shuttles that are complex, multistage rockets.
This book describes space exploration, from the first attempts to fly rocket-powered vehicles to the first humans to travel beyond Earth's atmosphere and leave footprints on the moon.
Explores the people and technology associated with space exploration, discussing the history of space travel, early rocket pioneers, Apollo missions to the moon, space stations, and the space shuttle.
Traces the history of the space race and the technology behind the use of robot explorers to examine the surface of Mars and other places in the solar system where humans have not yet been able to travel.
