Examines the history of people's interest in space travel, the development of efforts to leave Earth, and possibilities for colonization and exploration of outer space.
A detailed description of space flight and exploration along with hands-on experiments and observations and full-color photographs taken by telescopes on Earth and in space.
Examines the history of space travel including Robert Goddard; Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space; Alan Shepard, the first American in space; the first moon landing in 1969; Apollo 13; and the space shuttle.