rockets (aeronautics)

Space pioneers charts the exploits of a handful of space explorers who have ridden rockets into space and accomplished a series of intrepid firsts.

Discusses the history, career path, and possibilities within the aerospace engineering field.

Describes how catapults and rockets how, and how to make your own using pre-fabricated parts and household objects. Includes detailed do-it-yourself projects and further information suitable for young people.

You don't need kids to tell you that Making is Fun. Just get them in a room with simple projects, common household tools and utensils, inexpensive supplies, and their imagination. All young people need is an interest in how the world works, the right tools to explore, and some projects to serve as jumping-off points for their explorations.

A simple explanation of how space rockets work, where they travel, and what they do.

Provides information about makerspaces and the maker movement and about unmanned aerial vehicles and how makerspaces can be used to create them.

Text and color photographs explain the history, design and construction, and various uses of rockets.

Traces the development of aviation design and technology through the twentieth century, presenting historical facts and cutaway illustrations of such craft as war planes, balloons, and spacecraft.

When best friends Romeo and Lou, a polar bear and a penguin, build a rocket ship out of snow, it suddenly ignites and launches them on an adventure through the starry night.