life support systems (space environment)

Provides information about what people will need to live, work, and play beyond the Earth's atmosphere, discussing the technology needed to stay alive and healthy in space, the long-term effects of zero gravity, nutrition and sanitation, space recreation, and other topics.

Teaches young readers about conditions in space and how life can survive there.

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 various steps necessary for an astronaut to prepare for a flight into space and follows astronaut Linda Gardner as she trains for her space shuttle mission.

Provides a simple description of how astronauts aboard a space shuttle perform everyday activities such as eating, drinking, and sleeping.

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.

Describes conditions for astronauts aboard space shuttles, space stations, and space capsules, indicates how humans survive in these extreme environments, and looks at future developments in space travel.

Examines life aboard a space shuttle, describing how astronauts deal with weightlessness, how they eat and exercise, some of the work they do, and more.