The spacecraft Discovery journeys to the outer edge of the solar system, and two navigators become uneasy when Hal, the craft's talking computer system, demonstrates unusual behavior.
Ziggy and the other members of the Black Dinosaurs go to Space Camp where they learn about the space program and speculate about the existence of extraterrestrial beings.
Looks at rockets, lunar modules, shuttles, satellites, and probes, in terms of basic space travel theory, gravity, drag, sources of power, design, and steering.
"Nowadays, space travel isn't just for professional astronauts doing research or orbital engineers ... It's for people like you." Includes five experiments.
After teenage Sri Lankan Ranjit Subramanian, a math prodigy, reconstructs and publishes the famous last theorem of Pierre de Fermat, the powerful aliens called the Grand Galactics respond to the flash of nuclear explosions and decide to exterminate humanity just as Earth's superpowers develop a new, nonlethal, way of promoting global peace.
The best and brightest minds on Earth are assembled to intersect with Rama II. Informed of Raman technology, they still are not prepared for what they encounter.
The spacecraft Discovery journeys to the outer edge of the solar system, and two navigators become uneasy when Hal, the craft's talking computer system, demonstrates unusual behavior.
Presents a number of illustrated photographs and interesting facts and figures about spacecraft including the first satellite into space and first moon walk, early rocket science, the space race during the Cold War, first people in space, rocket planes, and the space shuttle.
