David Owen
Final Frontier: Voyages into Outer Space
A young reader's guide to space exploration.
Final Frontier is an illustrated guide to the past, present and future of space exploration. The book covers the early history of space flight: from the first unmanned missions, to the early manned flights and finally to the Apollo moon missions. Space program successes and failures are covered including the disasters that befell Apollo 1 and the shuttles Challenger and Columbia.
The book explains how deep space is explored today with such sophisticated telescopes and space probes as:
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Manned space stations
- Unmanned probes such as Voyager and Pioneer
- Space stations such as Mir and Apollo-Soyuz.
The proposed International Space Station is described as well as the unique challenges people will encounter in space such as living in a zero-gravity environment.
The future of space exploration is discussed including the possibility of alien life on other solar systems. Proposed projects such as an automated lunar mining operation and a scientific base on Mars are also covered.
Readers will enjoy Final Frontier for its colorful, abundant illustrations and easy-to-follow text.
- ISBN
- 1552977765 / 9781552977767
- Pages
- 128
- Weight
- 15.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.8 x 0.5 in.
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