space flight

A selection of fascinating facts about the universe, astronomy, and space travel. Includes vital data on each of the planets, star charts, and a chronology of space journeys.

On t.p.: An illustrated history of the men, the missions, and the spacecraft.

Explains why people travel in air and space and introduces the various forms of transportation used.

"On the eve of the first manned mission to Mars, Secret Agent Jack Stalwart learns that the mission's chief rocket engineer has disappeared. When he finds out that engineer is his father, Jack vows the kidnapper is going to live to regret it. Can Jack keep his cool to save the day?..."p.[4] of cover.

Chronicles the history of manned flight, from Leonardo da Vinci's fifteenth-century drawings of flying machines to excursions into outer space.

Text and photographs discuss how sunlight can be used to propel spacecraft equipped with sails to reach destinations now beyond the reach of conventional craft.

Tells the story of the first decades of planetary exploration beginning with a discussion of the universe, followed by a look at missions to the moon and other planets.

Determined to prove himself at his new school by creating the best science project ever, Thomas becomes so immersed in his study of the solar system that he dreams of astronaut sheep who fly a spacecraft to Mars and beyond.

Provides information about space travel, looking at some of the missions that have been undertaken by the United States, and discusses possible future expeditions into outer space.

In the hope that science will find a cure for the genetic mutation that has made him and his three children geniuses while condemning them to gigantism and short lives, Julian "Bean" Delphiki, aka the Giant, takes them into space. Travelling at light speed, however, allows them to be forgotten on Earth, where hundreds of years have passed, and when their ship begins to fail and Bean nears death, the siblings, now six years old, must save themselves.