space flight

Describes the events of Scott Carpenter's Aurora 7 flight from Carpenter's original reports, including the objectives of the mission, his three orbits, and landing more than two hundred and fifty miles away from the planned site. Includes a DVD-ROM with additional documents and photographs.

Asumi is excited when she is admitted into the Tokyo Space School, but she will have to face many challenges as she adjusts to life in the city in order to realize her dream of becoming an astronaut.

Answers questions about space, from "How did the universe begin?" to "Could we travel to the stars?".

Provides an introduction to space travel, describing what astronauts do, how they live and work in space, space shuttles and space stations, moon landings, and more.

Covers the history and technology of spaceflight.

A discussion of the history of manned spaceflight, covering topics such as early rocket development, NASA and U.S. military space agencies, the race to the Moon, and the various stages of the space shuttle program and different types of space stations, with a list of American astronauts, Soviet and Russian cosmonauts, and others who have journeyed into space.

Study of the world of exotic matter, black holes, white holes, and wormholes that could theoretically bridge distant parts of the universe.

Tells the history of major discoveries about Venus and outlines some of the great controversies surrounding them.

Briefly discusses many "firsts"--such as the first dog in orbit, first human in space, first space station, first planetary probes--and the subsequent activity in these and other areas relating to space flight.

Explores a wide variety of the aspects of space travel.