Vogt, Gregory

Explores how stars form and create energy, including descriptions of black holes, constellations, and the movement of stars.

Presents color-illustrated profiles of the sun and each planet in the solar system, describing their size, composition, moons and rings, and other characteristics, and includes a brief discussion of asteroids and comets.

An illustrated history of developments in manned spaceships, including a discussion of future programs and the effect of the "Challenger" tragedy.

Presents examples of space stations and explains how astronauts live and work in them.

Explains how space shuttles work and how astronauts live and work in them.

Describes different types of rockets and how they work, including ancient Chinese rockets, Saturn V, Voyager I, and the space shuttle.

Text and pictures describe the stars and constellations.

Text and pictures describe nebulae.

Text and pictures describe the moons of our solar system.