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Readers find out what it's like for astronauts to eat, sleep, and work on a manned space flight in this adventurous Spanish-translated nonfiction reader. Children will discover what it's like to be weightless in zero gravity, how Mission Control helps keep astronauts safe, and what astronauts do during...

All aboard with Train Travel! This Level 1 DK Reader traces the developments of steam engines, from the earliest trains to today's speedy vehicles. With short sentences and simple vocabulary, as well as strong visual clues, DK Readers: Train Travel is perfect for children just beginning to learn to...

Let’s go to Jupiter today! This educational book is filled with wonderful facts about the largest planet in the Solar System. Your child will love the colors and the selection of texts laid out in this book. Read about random facts to help widen your knowledge on the planet. Feel like you're really...

What is the coldest planet in our solar system? Which has the shortest year? FAR OUT! Solar System answers these questions and more about our home system in space.The Spectrum® Readers are the perfect Common Core aligned tool to support the development of nonfiction reading skills. Each leveled reader...

Learn about outer space exploration, from the Hubble telescope to the latest space shuttle launches, in this delightful, Spanish-translated nonfiction title! Readers will learn about famous astronauts, the history of exploring space, and what the future holds for space exploration through vivid images...

A richly illustrated guide to the myths, histories, and science of the celestial bodies of our solar system, with stories and information about constellations, planets, comets, the northern lights, and more. Combining art, mythology, and science, What We See in the Stars gives readers a tour...

To gaze at the stars is one thing; to capture that gaze in photographs is something else, a tantalizing scientific art that many attempt and few master.  That rare mastery is on full display in this beautiful volume of space photography from thirty of the most accomplished astrophotographers in the...

Anna was on a mission:  Intersect with the Magellan log copies and review the accounts for herself. This mission posed no mall challenge.  When her mission intersected with that of Nicolaus Copernicus, more than one mystery was solved.  Anna's story was one of intrigue in a time that was not kind...

The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of adding one more planet to our solar system,...

“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) returns to explore the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times bestseller. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer....

In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts on America's fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck: a mysterious explosion rocked the ship, and soon its oxygen and...

By his theory of relativity Albert Einstein has provoked a revolution of thought in physical science. The achievement consists essentially in this:|Einstein has succeeded in separating far more completely than hitherto the share of the observer and the share of external nature in the things...

Isaac Asimov concludes that we are not alone! Using the most up-to-date astronomical research as the backdrop for speculation, Asimov confronts the possibilities of other-worldly life head-on in Extraterrestrial Civilizations. In what will surely become one of the most provocative books ever...

A thought-provoking and humorous collection on NASA and the future of space travel. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist, one who can speak as easily and brilliantly with popular audiences as with professional scientists. Now that NASA has put human space flight effectively...