From early rockets to missions to Mars, trace the evolution of technology's most adventurous topic - man's never-ending fascination with outer space. A host of famous spacecraft throughout history show how inventors and engineers have developed and improved on technology to make space exploration such an important part of human history. This book also dissects some major developments, such as the reusable rockets, pioneering animals that paved the way for humans to enter space and also explains the SPace Race, space stations and probes and missions to other planets to give a rounded picture of these amazing machines.

Technology Timelines is a series of six book aimed at upper KS2 and early KS3 readers, tracing the development of specific technologies through the ages.

This book is part of a book series called Technology Timelines .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Hachette Children's Group .

Tom Jackson is the author of over 60 natural science books for children. He is a zoologist and has worked in publishing for many years.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Introduction
• 1: Blast off!
• 1: into orbit
• 1: Space travellers
• 1: Moon landings
• 1: Space stations
• 1: To the planets
• 1: A space plane
• 1: Space telescope
• 1: Private spacecraft
• 1: Mars rovers
• 1: Living in space
• 1: The future in space
• 1: Glossary and index