Experience the force of liftoff. Create your own constellations. Write a postcard from another planet. Make a club-soda comet, and more! From rocketing out of Earth's gravity and orbiting our planet to probing other planets and walking on the Moon, "Cosmic Science" makes exploring space a blast! More than 40 easy, safe - and fun - activities show how rockets work, why the shape of the Moon seems to change, just how much power the Sun has, what it's like to live and work in space, and much more.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cosmic .

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by John Wiley and Sons Ltd .

JIM WIESE is an elementary school science teacher in British Columbia, Canada, who has written several science schoolbooks and who loves leading field trips to his favorite amusement parks.

This book has the following chapters: Before You Go: Understanding Our Solar System. Blast Off!: Rocketing Out of Earth's Gravity. Up There!: Orbiting Earth. "Look, Ma, I'm Floating": Living and Working in Space. Places We've Gone: Walking on the Moon. Places We'd Like to Go: Probing the Planets. Even Farther: Seeing the Stars and More. Glossary. Index.