Vogt, Gregory

Provides a brief history of planetary studies and exploration, focusing on Mars and the "inner" planets Mercury and Venus.

Discusses experiments proposed by high school students that have been performed aboard "Skylab" and gives advice to those interested in similar space research competitions.

Important new scientific data was collected on the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto by the telescopes aboard the Voyager spacecrafts. For the first time, scientists were able to collect information by studying the giant planets at close range.

Discusses the United States space program Viking and the mission to Mars.

Explains the space shuttle--what it is, how it works, and what it is like to fly it, as well as describing the pre-flight, launch, flight, and landing.

Describes the design and function of the Hubble Space Telescope, its initial problems, and plans to repair it.

Text and photographs present information on Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, as it was photographed by the United States spacecraft Mariner 10.

Suggests projects demonstrating such outer space principles and phenomena as gravity wells, rocket propulsion, and planetary motion.