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Discusses what gravity is, what it does, and how it affects people.

Describes the efforts and accomplishments of both the United States and the Soviet Union to develop space stations over the past quarter century.

Examines the history and missions of manned space flight and the training and duties of both American and Russian astronauts.

Examines the function of NASA and the impact of its various space exploration programs.

An account of the worst disaster in the twenty-five-year history of United States space exploration, the loss of the shuttlecraft Challenger and its seven member crew.

Presents an introduction to space, in simple text with illustrations, describing what it is, and how people travel through it.

Explains how early inventions, including those of the sundial and compass, as well as more recent discoveries, have helped scientists explore outer space; includes science experiments relating to these instruments.

This book describes what life in space is like and how astronauts have learned to deal with space challenges.

Introduces the work of astronauts, including special jobs they might have on the space shuttle and experiments they might perform in space.

Easy-to-follow steps and informational photographs describe an astronaut costume.

From Earth to distant planets. Since ancient times, people have looked to the skies.

Examines the various manned and unmanned missions into space and describes their discoveries.

Astronaut Sally Ride examines how the earth is studied from space, its critical relationship with the other planets in the solar system, and some of the earth's features, including climate, orbits, atmosphere, and light.

Answers questions about the day-to-day details of living in space, including what it feels like to be weightless, how food is cooked, and what happens to the body in space.

Uses a newspaper format to take a look at developments that led from the ideas of Copernicus and other early scientists to the technological advances that enabled man to venture to the moon and beyond.