Book: Hardback | 224 x 288mm | 72 pages | ISBN 9780756607319 | 25 Aug 2004 | Dorling Kindersley | 8 - 18
Relaunched with a new jacket and 8 pages of new text!
Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the mysteries beyond Earth and its atmosphere. Original photography of spacecraft both before and after traveling in space and pictures of astronauts and their equipment offer a unique "eyewitness" view of the history of Space exploration and the daily life of astronauts. See an astronaut repairing an orbiting spacecraft from the outside, fantastic photographs of Pluto, the farthest planet from Earth, and the satellite tracking device that shows how red deer live. Learn how satellites in Space help us to forecast the weather, about the first birth in Space, and how an astronaut's body is affected upon reentering the Earth's atmosphere. Discover how a special sleeping bag helps astronauts sleep in weightless conditions, how machines used on Earth were developed from material originally used in Space, how the Large Space Simulator is used to test spacecraft, and much, much more.
