Space Academy: How to Fly Spacecraft Step by Step - Softcover

Kespert, Deborah

 
9780500650141: Space Academy: How to Fly Spacecraft Step by Step
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500650144 ISBN 13: 9780500650141
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Here is a training class that shows children how to pilot different kinds of spacecraft. Filled with stats and facts, this book covers essential space science, plus the latest space hardware, gadgets, and know-how.An introductory Astronaut School section looks at the technology of space travel. In Orbit takes children into space, putting them in the hot seat on different kinds of spacecraft or at mission control. They learn how to fly an Apollo rocket to the Moon, take a space shuttle to the International Space Station, go on a spacewalk, and ferry a cargo of tourists into zero gravity. The ID section at the back of the book explains how to identify different kinds of rockets and manned and unmanned craft, including probes, rovers, and shuttles.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Deborah Kespert is the author of numerous children’s books, including Explore! and, with David Baker, Space Academy.

David Baker is a former NASA scientist and leading expert on spaceflight technology. He has worked with NASA on the Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle programmes and has written over eighty books on the subject.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500650144
ISBN 13 
9780500650141
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
48
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