space flights

Explors mankind's efforts to venture to outer space, chronicling the events that have led us to this point. Considers how close we are to commercial space flight and spotlights modern efforts to open the final frontier to everyone.

Describes the flaws in the Hubble telescope and chronicles the 1993 voyage aboard the "Endeavour" to fix the problems.

Photographs and simple text introduce early readers to various missions into space including the mercury missions, moon landings, and unmanned space missions.

Describes the patches worn by U.S. astronauts during their missions into space.

Discusses the importance of the twelve Gemini space flights that laid the foundation for the United States' exploration of space.

An illustrated introduction to outer space that examines the Earth's moon, the other planets in the solar system, the sun, asteroids, and related topics.

Describes what it was like to be an astronaut on the "unlucky" 1970 Apollo 13 mission to the moon.

Examines how the astronauts live in space, how and what they eat, how they breathe, what they wear inside and outside of the space station, how they keep clean, and other interesting facts about living and working in space.

Details astronaut John Glenn's second flight into space in 1998 and contrasts it with his first flight in 1962, discussing training, equipment, and responsibilities.