space flight

Introduces readers to NASA's Orion spacecraft and discusses the history of space travel, what it's like to live in space, developments in technology and systems for deep space travel, and more.

A mouse decides to fly to the moon.

Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant past.

Explore the latest developments in space travel-from reusable rockets to methods of keeping humans in space longer. Paired with thrilling photos and STEM Focus sidebars, this cutting-edge title even reveals plans for humanity's greatest mission yet: Mars.

"When Seraphin, Hans, and Sophie returned from their voyage to the moon, they didn't come home empty-handed--theybrought with them aetherite, a miraculous substance that defies gravity! To keep their secret safe from the Prussians, the trio lives in hiding on a remote island in Brittany. Meanwhile, Seraphin's father has founded the International Society of Aether, a group of scientists dedicated to the peaceful pursuit of space exploration. But on the eve of their inaugural meeting, he vanishes without a trace! The Knights of Aether's last hope lies in a daring rescue of King Ludwig and Professor Dulac. They will find them on the farthest outskirts of the Prussian empire--the planet Mars!"--Amazon.

Explains what daily life is like for astronauts in zero-gravity space, discussing eating, burping, exercising, sleeping, and using the toilet.

"There are so many . . . missions to outer space that have succeeded. But for every success, there are mistakes, surprises, and flat-out failures that happen along the way. In this collection . . . recounts twelve such disasters, telling the stories of the astronauts and the cosmonauts, the trials and the errors, the missions and the misses"--Provided by publisher.

"Thirteen-year-old Lucy Eberslee, the Gatekeeper's deputy at the end of the world, teams up with Arthur and Rosemary, who are from other worlds, to investigate why the doors between worlds are stuck"--OCLC.

Our moon is part of our solar system. Astronauts have traveled to the moon and it is very different than the earth.

"2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, and disguised as a human attempts to live a "normal" life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend, Joshua, now in his fifties, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history. And the super-intelligent post-humans known as "the Next" continue to adapt to life among "lesser" humans. But an alarming new challenge looms. An alien planet has somehow become "entangled" with one of the Long Earth worlds and, as Lobsang and Joshua learn, its voracious denizens intend to capture, conquer, and colonize the new universe--the Long Earth--they have inadvertently discovered.".