Blast off alongside space expert Sarah Cruddas on a journey through space exploration history, from the Apollo Moon landings to mind-boggling plans for living on Mars.
How did we land on the Moon? What will the space jobs of the future look like? The Space Race answers all of the big questions that kids have about space travel. Sarah Cruddas brings to life the hidden stories behind the most famous space missions, before taking the reader on a journey through our space future.
Includes a foreword by NASA astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission, as well as fascinating insights from Sarah's interviews with real-life astronauts including Apollo 17's Eugene Cernan and Virgin Galactic Test Pilot Kelly Latimer. Space-mad kids will delight in the detail, photographs, and information on each page, and will love seeing intricate diagrams of iconic spaceships and space suits created by artist Mark Ruffle. Propelled by recent scientific discoveries, The Space Race is an essential handbook to every aspect of the history, and future, of human space travel.
This reissue is updated to include the events of the last 7 years, right up to and including Artemis's mission to the Moon that happened last month, and the latest information on Mars missions, discoveries and photographs, new space stations, telescopes, and images of deep space. In total, around 14 spreads are revised and the book has a new cover.
Kids will love this hilarious fairy tale adventure packed with clever twists, familiar characters and page-turning fun.
The second book in a fabulous new magical, middle-grade series filled with adventure, wonder and wildness,
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Sarah Cruddas is a space journalist and broadcaster with a background in astrophysics. She is frequently seen talking about space on British television, and appears on channels in the US such as National Geographic and The Discovery Channel. Sarah specialises in space exploration and has reported on the subject across the world. She is also the author of
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