Other editions of book Rockets: An Inventor's Handbook Kit

This new interactive kit gives young readers an exciting hands-on approach to the world of rockets. Children find out how rockets are designed, which scientists are launching them, and where these amazing machines may take human beings next. They learn about the cross-cultural history of rocket development: first created over 1,000 years ago in China, enhanced and engineered by Russian and German scientists and used in World War II, and refined by American scientists to take astronauts to the moon. This captivating 32-page book is filled with interesting facts, full-color photographs, illustrations, and contains all the components and a foldout instruction sheet to make a launch pad and working rocket.