space flight

Discusses the exploration of Mars, focusing on the space flights made by unmanned probes, and examines possible developments and further exploration in the future.

Describes the training and preparation for spacewalking, the hazards faced by astronauts, as well as the construction of spacesuits.

Describes the life of the chimpanzee that was sent into space as part of the American space program, describing his capture, training, the actual flight, and his life afterwards.

Describes the activities aboard the space shuttle Discovery during its historic flight in 1998 when John Glenn, at age seventy-seven, returned to space.

Describes the history and work of the John F. Kennedy Space Center located on Merritt Island on the east coast of Florida.

Describes how astronauts aboard the space shuttle eat, drink, sleep, conduct experiments, walk in space, and feel when they arrive back on earth.

Describes the operation and uses of a vehicle that can go back and forth between earth and an orbit in space.

Defines in simple terms the characteristics of outer space, satellites, and the principles of flight through space.

A wordless book in which a young boy journeys into space to find his bunnies a better home than his own inhospitable city.

Photographs and text describe how astronauts walk in space from the 1960s to the present.