Describes the training and duties of astronauts who work in space shuttles and space stations, as well as how they spend their free time while in space.
Stranded on the moon after his extraordinary airplane takes him into outer space, a boy meets a marooned young Martian with a broken spacecraft, and the two new friends work together to return to their respective homes.
When Army Shanks learns that a Siberian oil tanker has anchored in Canadian waters and is planning to launch a rocket to the moon, his investigation allows him to discover that one of the women on board is a childhood friend. As he researches the Siberians' intent and attempts to make contact with his friend, he becomes wrapped up in a quickly escalating space race with hijinks galore.
Berkeley, California, middle-schooler Jason Jameson has a close encounter of the fun kind when Sam, a bluish alien from the Pleiades, arrives in a 1960 Dodge Dart spaceship and invites Jason to go fishing.