Space Exploration

Description

Top tips for space travellers! Learn how to explore your solar system in this up-close, expert guide.

The Space Traveller’s Guide: Space Exploration is your personal tour of what we’ve done and where we’re headed as humans explore our Universe. Learn about the epic technology and courageous trailblazers that have touched the cosmos, from satellites to moon walks, rockets to robots on Mars. Includes ‘Traveller’s Tips’ for surviving the extreme conditions in space, and don’t miss the real-life tour photos at the back!

The Space Traveller’s Guide series is the perfect one-stop-shop for space lovers, brought to you by expert astronomy and physics author Giles Sparrow. It includes astounding facts to inspire young space-travel hopefuls, plus humorous cartoons to draw them through the pages, and presents key science learning in an accessible format for readers aged 9 and up.

Contents list, Space Exploration: Out of this world / Rockets into space / Amazing satellites / Spaceships for humans / Space stations / Living and working in space / Missions to the Moon / Exploring the Moon / Probes to the planets / Robot explorers / Into the future / Beyond the solar system / Tour snapshots / Glossary / Resources / Index

The series includes: Earth and the Inner Planets, The Outer Planets, The Sun and Stars and Space Exploration