Space-mad kids can discover how real spacecraft work, and what life's really like as an astronaut with this fun, accessible book about real-life spaceships, offering short chunks of simple text, stunning photographs and detailed diagrams. Full of cutaway illustrations of spacecraft, from the Apollo 11 Moon landing craft to the Space Shuttle and beyond, plus comic strips about the excitement and danger of space travel. Includes carefully selected internet links to websites with games allowing you to build your own rocket, video clips of space launches and panoramic views inside the International Space Station.

 

This book is part of a book series called Beginners Plus .

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Louie Stowell (Author) Louie Stowell started her career writing carefully-researched books about space, Ancient Egypt, politics and science but eventually lapsed into just making stuff up. She likes writing about dragons, wizards, vampires, fairies, monsters and parallel worlds. She lives in London with her wife Karen, her dog Buffy and a creepy puppet that is probably cursed.