Are you curious about what lies beyond Earth? What do you know about the Sun, the Moon, the planets and the stars? This book takes you beyond the Earth's atmosphere and follows the race for space between Russia and America. Only recently has technology made flying in space possible. We are still learning much about the Universe through space exploration.

 

This book is part of a book series called Livewires .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: 1. The heavens above; 2. Ancient peoples; 3. Nicolaus Copernicus; 4. Galileo Galilei; 5. The great leap forward; 6. Spacecraft; 7. Russian firsts; 8. A president's promise; 9. Men on the Moon; 10. Space stations; 11. Space shuttles; 12. Space probes; 13. Today's work, tomorrow's hopes.