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Let the mission begin with this far-out series. This volume includes Mars Rovers, Robonauts, Rockets, and Space Shuttles.

Climb into your spaceship and blastoff for an adventure through our solar system! This exciting nonfiction series uses narrative text to inform early learners about the different planets, moons, and other celestial bodies in the solar system. On their journeys, they’ll discover volcanic moons, mysterious dwarf planets, and much more! This volume includes Moons, The Outer Planets, and The Sun.

What causes Jupiter’s Great Red Spot? How have volcanoes shaped the land on many planets? How do space shuttles launch and dock with space stations? This series introduces young listeners to the objects within our solar system and the tools people use to explore the mysteries of space. This volume includes The Sun, Uranus, Venus, Asteroids, Astronauts, and The Hubble Telescope.

Did you know that there are two kinds of shuttle astronauts? One is a pilot astronaut and the other is a mission specialist.

¡Siete insólitos destinos para quienes deseen pasar unas vacaciones de otro planeta! Una descripción detallada, original y divertida de cada uno de los planetas del Sistema Solar, que incluye información sobre las misiones espaciales que los visitaron y datos sobre los sitios web oficiales...

Warum ist der Himmel blau? Wie tief ist ein schwarzes Loch? Kann man mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit durchs All sausen? Und ist ein Blick mit dem Teleskop in die Vergangenheit möglich? Wer sich bisher fragte, was im All so los ist, bekommt jetzt mit Spaß und Witz die knallharten Fakten des Universums geliefert. Vince & Erics unterhaltsame Reise zu den Sternen ist ein Hörerlebnis für die ganze Familie. Vince und Eric spielen sich die Planeten zu, holen uns die Sterne vom Himmel und suchen nach grünen Männchen. Dabei beantworten sie die Fragen, die echte Weltraumfans quälen.

Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: "one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." But America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit; later that year, America's first attempt was such a failure that the media nicknamed it "Kaputnik." Still, we didn't give up. With each failure, we gleaned valuable information about what went wrong, and how to avoid it in the future. So we tried again. And again. And each time we failed, we failed a little bit better.