Space Travel Guides offer a unique look at our Solar System and beyond for older children. Adopting a `travel guide` format, this original series takes the reader on a fascinating fact-packed voyage, offering insights and points of interest along they way. Stunning full-colour photographs and quirky cartoons ensure that no detail is omitted as the trip progresses - from planetary features to star magnitudes and from space toilets to driving on the Moon.

 

This book is part of a book series called Space Travel Guides .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Hachette Children's Group .

Giles Sparrow is an author specializing in astronomy and physics. He's written about everything from space technology to the history of science.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Leaving Earth
• 2: Rockets
• 3: Into orbit
• 4: Humans into space
• 5: Space stations
• 6: Living with gravity
• 7: Working in orbit
• 8: Health hazards
• 9: Moon mission
• 10: On the Moon
• 11: Probing the planets
• 12: To the Moon and Mars
• 13: Beyond the solar system
• 14: Glossary and resources
• 15: Index