Packed with stunning photographs this book celebrates the incredible ingenuity of spacecraft designers and the courage of intrepid astronauts. It offers a chronological sweep of the history of space travel and technology from the ealiest rockets to the latest missions. Readers age 7 and up can discover the amazing array of technology that has enabled us to leave Earth and explore the universe. Then they can become rocket scientists themselves by following step-by-step instructions to build and launch their own rocket.>
Clive Gifford lives in Manchester, UK and is an award-winning author of over 150 books for children and adults. These include Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and Believing, winner of the prestigious Royal Society Young People's Book Prize in 2014, and Cool Technology, which won the School Library Association Information Book Award 2013. Clive's titles range from the serious (Robots, iScience, How the World Works) and sporty (with books on motor racing, the Olympics and football) to the downright silly (The Curse of the Toxic Trousers).
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